The sun sets in the west and dusk begins to rise.
It has been about half an hour since they left Hangzhou City.
Tang Qingqing remembered that Xiao Ding once said that corpses can sometimes talk and never tell lies.
At first she thought Xiao Ding was joking, but later she realized how solemn and sacred this was.
In the Shaolin Temple, if Huotoutuo hadn't "spoke" to the corpse of the little monk Zhenhui, who would have guessed that the murderer behind the scenes was Master Jingxuan, who was the least suspected?
"To make those corpses speak, of course it requires an extremely professional skill. Those who work in the government, although their positions are low, are always respected." Xiao Ding's expression is rarely so serious. He feels that every industry Everyone should be respected, this is what he realized when he learned his skills from an old man.
Although Tang Qingqing is young, he has been in the industry for many years. Ye Rongqiu and Zhou Ziheng are the ones who captured Longmen. They have been dealing with the Qinglong Society in these years, especially Zhou Ziheng, who became famous in his early years. Whether it is martial arts, courage or experience in the world, It can be regarded as a step above others. But since Xiao Ding appeared, slowly and unknowingly, the three of them have followed Xiao Ding's lead.
Zhou Ziheng turned around and asked, "Young Master Xiao Ding means that the thirteen people under the masked man in white will take action tonight?"
Xiao Ding smiled and said decisively: "If I guessed correctly, they will definitely show up tonight."
Tang Qingqing curled her lips and said: "Why are you so sure? If I were the man in the white mask, I would never take the risk, because no one knows his identity at present, so why would he bother?"
"It's precisely because he didn't dare to take risks that he took action. Those thirteen corpses will definitely leave some clues. There is no plan in this world that can be truly seamless." Xiao Ding smiled lightly. After a while, he gently opened the car curtain and looked out the window.
The twilight is deep outside the window, and the desolate wilderness is empty and silent.
"Huh..." Zhou Ziheng suddenly stopped his horse and saw that there was no road ahead of the carriage.
This trail has been abandoned, with rocks and overgrown weeds.
They were on the wrong track.
"Uncle Heng, please stop your carriage and horses here!" Xiao Ding suddenly said.
Tang Qingqing and Ye Rongqiu were both stunned. They couldn't guess what Xiao Ding meant. Why did he park his carriage and horses here? There was no way to reach the village or store.
Zhou Ziheng also looked confused.
"I didn't expect that smart Xiao Ding would occasionally do some stupid things. Instead of taking a good road, he insisted on walking to this place where birds don't poop. Amazing, amazing, admire, admire." Tang Qingqing laughed. .
Xiao Ding ignored Tang Qingqing's ridicule, opened the car door and jumped out, looked back at Tang Qingqing and Ye Rongqiu and said with a smile: "Come on, do you still want to follow Heng Bo back?"
The three of them were stunned together. You looked at me and I looked at you, thinking to myself, is Xiao Ding crazy?
"What? Go back? Where?" Of course Zhou Ziheng knew that Xiao Ding was not crazy, but he suspected that he heard wrongly.
"Of course I'm going back to the city. I'll go back to where I came from." Xiao Ding didn't even mean to joke.
Well, this time all three of them heard clearly, and there was nothing wrong with their ears.
They jumped out of the carriage together.
"You mean to let the three of us drive back? Do you want to stay here?" Tang Qingqing reached out and touched Xiao Ding's forehead, and said with a smile: "There is no need to punish yourself for taking the wrong road. It is inevitable for everyone to take the wrong one." Twice the way.”
Xiao Ding's smile was a little strange: "Who said I took the wrong route? I was originally going to come here."
Tang Qingqing sighed deliberately and said: "This is strange. Didn't someone say that they would go to Yizhuang in the west of the city to check the corpses? Could it be that those corpses would come here so that people can't see them?"
"Yes, those corpses will come here, maybe they are already on the road." The evening wind whistled, the forest shadows were dense, and Xiao Ding's smile seemed to have an indescribable and mysterious meaning in the dusk.
Tang Qingqing couldn't help but shuddered excitedly, and for a moment she forgot to speak.
Ye Rongqiu forced a smile and said: "Stop joking around and turn around and leave. It will get dark soon."
"Little Yezi is right, it's getting late. To avoid a long night and many dreams, the carriage cannot stay here. Uncle Heng, please drive the carriage and horses back to the city." Xiao Ding said seriously.
Xiao Ding might joke with Tang Qingqing and Ye Rongqiu, but he would never joke with Zhou Ziheng. The three of them all understood this, so they became even more confused.
"How do you think the burnt corpse should be disposed of so as not to leave any traces?" Xiao Ding looked at the way they came. In the dusk, the end of the road they had just walked could no longer be seen.
Xiao Ding asked abruptly, how could the three of them know what he really wanted to ask.
"A burnt corpse is like calcined charcoal. It is difficult to burn it again unless a fierce fire is used. And the open flame is eye-catching, and they will never make the same mistake again. So the best way is to find a Bury those corpses in the soil in inaccessible places, and wait for the corpses to rot in the soil, and eventually turn into piles of soil. In this way, even if others find the place where the corpses were buried, who can search in the soil? Did you get any secrets?" Xiao Ding said quickly. He knew that Tang Qingqing and the three of them would never leave unless he knew clearly, and time was passing by little by little.
Although Xiao Ding explained very carefully, the three of them still seemed to understand.
Ye Rongqiu asked first: "Even if they plan to bury those corpses in the soil, how can you conclude that they will definitely choose to bury them here?"
Ye Rongqiu rarely asks questions. Usually the questions she asks are questions that others want to ask.
Xiao Ding smiled lightly and said slowly: "The thirteen corpses are not the ashes of the thirteen corpses. Even if they are taken out of the coffins and stacked together, it is difficult to transport them."
"So they will not transport the corpses back to the city, but can only dig a deep pit in the wilderness and bury the corpses?" Tang Qingqing seemed to have understood.
Ye Rongqiu added: "After all, pedestrians often come and go near the main road in Yizhuang. Suddenly there are several deep pits, which will inevitably lead to suspicion by others."
Tang Qingqing smiled and continued: "So as long as we find a secret place to hide, we will see those thirteen people and those burnt corpses."
Xiao Ding smiled and said: "Yes, you two are so smart, you figured it out so quickly."
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At night, the moonlight is hazy.
In the suburbs west of Hangzhou, the mountain wind howls.
Xiao Ding, Tang Qingqing, and Ye Rongqiu were hiding in the cold moonlight. If the three of them hadn't whispered softly from time to time, who would have thought that there would be people hiding in this desolate place.
"Do you think we will wait all night in vain? Those people will not come at all." Tang Qingqing's tone was already a little discouraged.
"Don't be impatient. Just be safe when you come. Those people are also afraid of being watched, so they naturally have to look around before taking action." Although Xiao Ding's tone was calm, he began to feel a little shaken in his heart. Could it be that he Did the calculation go wrong? The man in the white mask doesn't care whether those corpses will leak information?
Xiao Ding looked at Ye Rongqiu. In the hazy night, no expression could be seen on Ye Rongqiu's face. She actually looked calmer than Xiao Ding. Perhaps because of her experience, she had long been accustomed to this kind of situation.
"Shh..." Xiao Ding suddenly made a silent gesture and whispered: "They are coming, please don't make the slightest noise."
Xiao Ding said this to Tang Qingqing. He knew this girl's temper very well. If he didn't explain clearly, he was afraid that Tang Qingqing would jump out and mess up the plan. As for Ye Rongqiu, he was not worried at all. Ye Rongqiu had a calmness that her age should not have.
As soon as Xiao Ding finished speaking, Tang Qingqing and Ye Rongqiu could faintly hear the sound of horse hooves and rolling wheels.
The three of them hid on a not-high hillside near the broken road, halfway up the mountainside. There were dense vegetation and rugged rocks. If they didn't make any noise, others wouldn't be able to tell. However, they were able to easily see the movement below the mountainside through the gaps between trees and rocks.
After this path was cut off, it was impassable for vehicles and horses, and inaccessible to people. The grass and trees beside the road had become forests. Only at the foot of the hillside where Xiaoding and the others were hiding, there was a small open space. Although there were trees and rocks in the open space, they had to be in between. It's still easy to dig a few holes.
There was only one carriage, and a string of lanterns hung high on the carriage. From where Xiao Ding and the others were hiding, they could clearly see that there were two people sitting outside the carriage, two men in white.
Sure enough, the carriage stopped at the broken road, and two more people in white jumped out of the carriage. There were only four people in white in this carriage.
Tang Qingqing glanced at Xiao Ding, as if asking, where are the remaining men in white? Shouldn't there be thirteen men in white?
The four men in white didn't stop for a moment after getting off the car. The man in white who was driving turned the carriage around, and then he and the other two men in white kept moving things out of the carriage, while a man in white looked around to check the terrain.
The things they moved out were of course the thirteen burnt corpses. The corpses were wrapped in white cloth. Tang Qingqing counted them carefully and found that there were indeed thirteen corpses.
The man in white who was inspecting the terrain had returned, and the four of them had a conversation.
As expected by Xiao Ding, the four of them dug hard in the small open space.
If Xiao Ding hadn't told her before, Tang Qingqing would have jumped out long ago. Unfortunately, she could only watch the four men in white dig the hole, bury the corpses, get up and drive away.
Tang Qingqing exhaled suddenly and was about to speak. She had been holding it in for too long, and the problems in her heart were stuck in her throat and she couldn't express them quickly.
Xiao Ding covered her mouth and said in her ear with a weak mosquito voice: "Don't move, they haven't left yet."
Tang Qingqing's heart was pounding. She suddenly bit Xiao Ding's hand that was covering her mouth, leaving two moderately deep tooth marks on Xiao Ding's index finger.
Of course she didn't bite hard, but Xiao Ding suddenly pulled his hand away, not because of pain, but because he had heard Ye Rongqiu's cold snort.
The three of them didn't make any movement anymore. They were as still as rocks, as if they had merged with the rocks under their feet.
Halfway up the mountain, midnight.
Cold wind occasionally passes through the mountains and fields, making the grass and trees rustle. The sound is sometimes sharp and sometimes low.
Could it be that those corpses were whimpering and whispering underground?
