Liu Ping felt excited in his heart. After being reminded like this, he realized that the two cases were slightly related. He glanced aside at Li Huaiyun and saw that he still looked calm.
This guy is so sophisticated!
"Then let's go to the place where the butcher died now!"
"Um!"
Liu Pingzhong walked out of the street, looked around for a moment, and then walked into the alley again. He raised his head and glanced around, "Hey! What a coincidence, the end of this alley is the slaughterhouse."
"No wonder!" Li Huaiyun looked deep into the alley with a solemn expression.
The further you walked into the alley, the tall gray walls became more and more old, the potholes and muddy stones on the ground became more messy, and the air was filled with the smell of blood and the unique stench of livestock.
This kind of road is really difficult to walk without a flatbed truck.
There is a house deep in the alley. There are many stones piled at the door. The wood on the fence is stained and the door is locked. The closer to the house, the stronger the smell becomes.
Liu Pingzhong was obviously very disgusted with such a place. He covered his nose and frowned, for fear that he would be contaminated with disgusting dirt.
"Are we really going in here?"
"That's natural!" Li Huaiyun said, "Since it is a crime scene, there must be clues left, unless the current slaughterhouse deliberately removes those clues."
"This place stinks so much that it makes me uncomfortable. I don't want to stay here for a moment."
Li Huaiyun was a little puzzled and took a look at Liu Pingzhong. How could a big man have such a problem as mysophobia?
However, he also expressed his understanding. After all, Mr. Liu was considered a scholar and a place like a slaughterhouse, so of course he was incompatible with him.
"The main thing is that Liu Duo really doesn't want to go, so just wait for me at the entrance of the alley! I'll go and see it alone!"
Liu Pingzhong obviously couldn't accept this situation. He was responsible for this case. How could he leave it alone and let Li Huaiyun go in to find clues alone.
"It's okay! I can bear with it, isn't it just a slaughterhouse? It's not like I've never been there before."
You may have never been there! Li Huaiyun glanced at him. He knew in his heart that this guy had never been here before. After all, he knew music, chess, calligraphy and painting, and was born in a scholarly family. He was a standard second-generation rich man. How could he have been here before? Such a smelly and dirty place. Slaughterhouse.
However, it was very funny to see him being cautious, looking disgusted, and having to come in.
"This place is really dirty. If your clothes and trouser legs are dirty, that won't be good!"
"Stop talking nonsense, settle the matter, and get out of this damn place."
Li Huaiyun shrugged, "Don't regret it!"
He stood in front of the gate. There were several small pits on the ground. Inside were yellow dirty water with an oil film floating on them!
He raised his hand and patted the wooden door hard, and the knocking sound echoed in the silent alley.
At this time, a rough voice came from inside, "Who is knocking on the door? This animal hasn't been slaughtered yet."
"Master! I'm not here to buy meat!" Li Huaiyun responded while standing outside the door.
"Since you are not buying meat, then get away!" The speaker's attitude was quite bad and he didn't care who was at the door!
Li Huaiyun thought to himself, this guy has a really bad attitude, he doesn't look like he's doing business at all!
"We, the demon hunters from the Demon Slayer Division, are here to investigate a case!"
"Don't disturb your work!"
His persuasion seemed to have some effect. Suddenly there was no sound inside. After a while, footsteps came from inside. The footsteps were steady. It was obvious that the person who came was of an unusual figure.
"Listen to this voice, I'm afraid the person coming is not an ordinary person!"
"I feel the same way," Li Huaiyun said.
As soon as he finished speaking, the rusty door began to swing slightly, and the iron filings on it were flying in the air.
The breath is strong! He should be someone with a little bit of martial arts training.
In front of the house with red brick walls, a tall and muscular figure stood at the door. The man had thick eyebrows and angry eyes, staring at the two people outside the door with a little vigilance in his eyes.
Liu Pingzhong said, "This guy has some cultivation, and with his body type, he can intimidate many people!"
"Maybe my talent is average, so I found a job to earn a living. It does cost a lot to practice martial arts. At first, my aunt strongly opposed it, thinking it would cost too much money. Fortunately, I persisted, otherwise I would have to study medicine and die of suffocation. .”
"You are very lucky! It takes three years for an ordinary person to enter the Qi Refining Realm, so it is quite fast!"
Li Huaiyun was still very grateful to Hong Yun, and finally agreed. If he really insisted on not letting him practice martial arts, he might have become a playboy by now.
The butcher stood in front of the gate with a stern look on his face, looking at Li Huaiyun and Liu Pingzhong with disdain.
His brows furrowed, "Who are you? Why are you here?"
Li Huaiyun immediately cupped his fists and saluted, "Brother, we are the demon hunters of the Demon Slayer Division. There are ghosts causing trouble in this area these days, and many people have died. We are here to investigate."
"This is a place where pigs are killed! If there is anything to investigate, you shouldn't go to a place where dead people are killed!"
"The whole area around here needs to be checked, I just came here on the way!"
"Livestock are slaughtered in this place, the air of death is permeated, and a lot of resentment is accumulated. Even ghosts may not dare to approach."
"Come here to check, it's a waste of time!" The butcher said unceremoniously. He was shirtless, revealing his broad shoulders and strong muscles. His arms were soaked in blood. His hair was thick and his body was slightly fat. , ferocious, looks like the kind of extremely vicious person.
"We are here just to investigate the case!" Li Huaiyun looked into the slaughterhouse, "No matter what you say, we must inspect this slaughterhouse!"
What he said was quite tough.
The butcher raised his hand and pointed the black butcher knife at them. The sharp blade flashed in front of people, making people feel chilled. "The investigation has nothing to do with me! But I paid to rent this place." Yes, situations like this happen from time to time.”
Li Huaiyun said, "I heard that something happened to you before you worked in this slaughterhouse. You...!"
"What's going on? Something happened and it wasn't me. What does it have to do with me? If you want to find something, just go to the government! This case is under the jurisdiction of the county government, and they are responsible for the investigation. Why do you come here to find me?"
Although this guy is engaged in slaughtering work, his mind is not rigid and clear.
"I just want to use Guibao to check and understand the situation a little bit," Li Huaiyun walked up to Liu Pingzhong and said, "Master Liu, do you have any money on you?"
"What do you want to do?"
“If you want to visit, of course you have to spend some money!”
Liu Pingzhong said, "We are investigating cases normally and have the right to inspect anywhere."
"Don't waste your time. This butcher is obviously not an easy person to talk to. Besides, we are disturbing his work now, so it is reasonable to give him some."
Liu Pingzhong reluctantly took out a few coins and handed them over.
After Li Huaiyun took it, he offered it with both hands, "I hope Brother Butcher can be accommodating and let us go in and see the place."
When the butcher saw the silver, his eyes immediately lit up. When he took the silver, his face was full of smile, "It's right there, easy to talk about!"
"Come! Come! Come in!" He politely invited inside, "Seriously, what's so interesting about that place? Isn't it just a slaughterhouse? Besides, I have started slaughtering animals again there, and I can still see What to order?”
"You don't need to worry about this, we are just checking it briefly."
The butcher took them to the slaughterhouse and asked them to wait outside while he went in to pack up the people and things.
When they came out just now, they were only half slaughtered.
Li Huaiyun activated his aura technique and looked around. He found that the slaughterhouse at the front had a strong smell, which seemed to be the evil spirit of the slaughtered creatures that had not dissipated for a long time.
The butcher took three or four helpers out of the dilapidated house covered in bloodstains, and then said to Li Huaiyun, "I only give you two-quarters of an hour. We have to kill a few more animals today, someone wants to get married!"
"Oh! Aren't you afraid of getting married?"
"Which one?"
"Didn't it mean that if someone gets married on this street, the bride will disappear?"
The butcher suddenly realized what he was talking about. He smiled disdainfully and said, "What did I think you were talking about! It has been so long, and this thing has not happened for a long time!"
"So what do you people who live here think about this?"
"I don't live here! Besides, everything didn't happen after that. I guess it was probably because I was running away from the marriage! I pretended to be missing."
With the butcher's attitude like this, Li Huaiyun thought there was nothing to talk about, so he and Liu Pingzhong walked into the slaughterhouse.
The door there is open, and when you get closer, you can smell the strong smell of blood, which shows how many evil spirits of creatures are accumulated in it.
Li Huaiyun walked into this room of more than 20 square meters. It was dark inside, with a few candles lit on the walls, dirty wall slates, iron chains, arm-thick iron hooks hanging from the roof, and a one-meter-high cabinet with shelves on it. There were knives covered with bloodstains, with a little oily sheen on them, making these knives look even more permeable. The ground was covered with a layer of straw, and there were various wooden basins and barrels covered with bloodstains.
The pigs that had been slaughtered had their internal organs removed and were thrown on the stone slab. The blood in the body had not been completely drained and was dripping down the stone slab into the bucket next to it.
Tick tock! Tick tock! The sound echoed in the silent room.
Liu Pingzhong hated this place, not only because it was dirty and smelly, but also because this place had a special smell that made him feel like a hundred ghosts walking at night.
"There's something vaguely wrong about this place."
"You think so too!" Li Huaiyun responded immediately, "This place has a very strong evil spirit! But it can't be concealed, it's mixed with a little evil spirit!"
Liu Pingzhong turned his head and looked at the door. The butcher and his helpers were standing outside, with sinister eyes, glaring at the house from time to time.
"Is there a monster here?"
"It's very possible!" Li Huaiyun walked around the slaughterhouse to see what clues there were. After walking around, he saw a stack of papers hanging on the wall next to the door.
He stepped forward and looked through it, and what was recorded was the meat needed by the buyers. Several households had great demand during this day, and they should be the people who were about to get married according to the butcher's account.
Li Huaiyun flipped through another stack of papers hanging on the wall, and happened to find the accounts of the butcher who had been exterminated.
No matter how hard you try, you won't find anywhere!
The paper is yellow and unrolled, and the handwriting on it is a little weathered, but the details of the recorded accounts can still be seen clearly.
After a brief review, there is also a record in the accounts here that there is a marriage and more food needs to be prepared.
He pondered for a moment, then waved to Liu Pingzhong, "Master Liu, do you still remember the so-called rumor about whether there was a specific date when the bride disappeared?"
Liu Pingzhong frowned, "I have to ask the Ministry of Justice, but I have seen one or two cases in the files, and I remember the time of the crime relatively clearly!"
"Tell me the time you know!"
Liu Pingzhong looked thoughtful and waited for a moment before telling him the time to remember.
As Li Huaiyun turned the stack of papers recording accounts on the wall to a specific position, a smile appeared on his face.
"What did you find?"
"Guess what I found inside?"
Liu Pingzhong walked up, stared at the paper, and suddenly discovered that the time recorded in the account matched the time when the bride disappeared.
"This case of the murdered butcher is really related to the case of the missing bride."
"Yes! In those two days, we provided pork to the families getting married!" Li Huaiyun said, "According to normal circumstances, the banquet is held in the front hall and yard, but the food preparation and cooking are all in the backyard. If There is a connection between the backyard and the side room, so the butcher kidnapped the bride while he was delivering meat!"
Liu Pingzhong didn't accept this speculation very much, "That's impossible. Wouldn't the groom find out during the bridal chamber?"
"It's probably separated by people, or someone is waiting in the front hall to meet him. The groom must be drunk. Of course, a drunk person can't tell whether there is someone on the bed."
After such an explanation, it seems reasonable, but I still have a question, "Is this possible? How did they take away the bride? It would be difficult to take away such a big living person!"
"It's not difficult! It's just that it's easy to let the bride sleep. As for how to transport it away, it depends on how the pork is transported in."
Liu Pingzhong suddenly came to his senses when he heard these words. He nodded angrily, "Yes! Yes! These people came here with a cart, and it is enough for one bride."
"Then I don't know if this cart is still here. If it is, maybe I can find something."
"It's okay!" Liu Pingzhong said confidently, "Just ask the butcher now. I believe that if the cart is easy to use, it will definitely still be there!"
Li Huaairun turned around and came to the stone slab. The fat pig was lying on it. The whole stone slab was covered with blood. He reached out and wiped a handful of the rich blood.
"What’s wrong with you?"
"It's okay! I just want to know where this evil spirit comes from."
"Maybe it's just a remnant. Don't panic too much. The most important thing is that we found clues to the missing bride."
Liu Pingzhong looked solemn, "If the speculation is correct, the ghost brides who have appeared on the streets in the past few days are most likely innocent brides who died unjustly."
"Then it's certain that the butcher is related to that case!"
