Liu Yu looked up at the plaque on the door, thought about it and said slowly, "My lord, that rich merchant seems to have started from Mobei Mansion at the beginning, and took the road of a north-south thoroughfare, and then he became bigger and bigger, and after accumulating a lot of wealth, he washed his hands without warning, and came to the county to buy property and land with the money he earned, but he encountered such a tragic accident in a few years. ”

Gu Juan nodded slightly, put the plaque back behind the door, and was about to continue inward, but suddenly stopped, and asked with some confusion, "When I saw this plaque, I suddenly realized that we seemed to have neglected something just now, and I don't know if Liu Qianhu noticed this inappropriateness." ”

Liu Yu opened his mouth, thought about it and said slowly, "The subordinates didn't find anything, and I ask the adults to make it clear." ”

Gu Juan frowned, turned around and pointed to the gate of the manor behind him, "Liu Qianhu, think about it, how many years ago did Mu Guogong's involvement in the Tsing Yi Sect's rebellion happen?"

"Back to the words of the adult, the subordinates don't remember it very clearly, but the case of the violent death of the rich businessman's family happened twenty years ago, and if you extrapolate from this, the Mu Guogong rebellion case will at least be further advanced, that is, it will be more than 20 years. ”

Liu Yu suddenly closed his mouth when he said this, and after glancing at his two subordinates, his face became calm.

Gu Juan stood at the door and said in a calm tone, "Did you finally notice that something was wrong?"

The adult's eyes are like torches, and his subordinates admire. ”

Liu Yu first subconsciously slapped a sycophant, and then said with some horror, "If it weren't for the fact that the adults had just woken up, the subordinates would have directly ignored such obvious doubts and made mistakes that should not have been made!"

He took a deep breath to ease the uneasiness in his heart, "But, but this thing is strange and weird everywhere...... In the memory of his subordinates, the plaque of the words Mu Guogong's mansion, as well as the stone carvings of the two lions and tigers outside the head gate, have long been removed with the crimes of the descendants of Mu Guogong, and it is impossible for the rich businessman not to repair and decorate the manor after he bought it, so the door number and sculpture I just saw at the door ......"

Gu Juan raised his hand and stopped Liu Yu's next words.

Then he turned sharply and looked at the bluestone road he had just walked.

"Did you hear a rustling sound just now, like sweeping the floor with a broom?"

Gu Juan narrowed his eyes and asked a few people beside him.

"Rustling?" Liu Yu had a puzzled and blank expression, "My subordinates have only heard the sound of wind and snow, and have not heard any sound of sweeping the floor......"

Before he finished his sentence, he suddenly closed his mouth, looked at the bluestone road with a big change in his face, and stammered, "The snow on the road, the footprints we just stepped on, and those few dead branches are gone." ”

"Liu Qianhu, since that caravan disappeared here, how many times have you explored this place, what have you found?"

"Back to my lordship, my subordinates did come with the head catcher of the six doors to investigate, and there were colleagues from the Persona Division who came here, but they didn't find anything, and then they sealed the manor, and found someone to secretly tell some rumors about the haunting of this place in the streets and alleys, and then there was no follow-up. ”

"Well, this place is so close to Beicang County, properly spreading some rumors can deter most of the idlers, if someone really dies, then no one can stop them, right?"

Gu Juan showed a slight smile of unknown meaning, as if he suddenly remembered something, and then asked, "Since the beginning of the work, when you visited the manor, did you spend the night in it?"

"Lord Hui, my subordinates have lived in it for three nights, but they are all in armor and guarding all night, and they haven't found anything particularly strange...... However, when the counselor of the Persona Division came, he refused to spend the night in the house, and his subordinates were naturally kind to the counselor's decision, so they lit two bonfires on the road outside the manor, and prepared some wine and meat for supper, and stayed with him in the field all night. ”

Liu Yu said this, with a puzzled expression on his face, "It's strange to say, in the middle of the night, more than 20 of us were drinking wine and eating meat around two bonfires and chatting, and suddenly there was a heavy fog, covering up the manor, and the counselor of the Hearsay Division directly threw away the wine jug when he saw this, beckoned us to turn around and leave, and came to a farther place to observe for a long time, until the fog dispersed without warning before leaving with a pale face. ”

"For the next few days, we would come here every night, and watch the gray fog appear without warning, and dissipate inexplicably, and the time of each time is uncertain, until five days later, the fog never appeared again, and the colleague of the Hearsay Division went back to his life, and warned us that it was best not to come near this place again, if it weren't for the adults coming this time, the subordinates really wouldn't dare to come again......"

Liu Qianhu worked hard, and the official was very grateful. As Gu Juan spoke, a faint red flame rose in the depths of his eyes, and he observed the bluestone road for a long time, and suddenly showed a smile and said, "Let's go, let's go back." ”

"Go back ......" Liu Yu was stunned for a moment, and said in his heart that he had just entered the outer door, and he hadn't even entered the second door yet, so he was going to turn around and go back?

However, he was able to do the position of riding a thousand households, and naturally knew that he should not say more than half of what should be said, and he should not ask more than half of what should not be asked, so he immediately waved his hand and called back the two spies who were exploring the road in front of him, and walked out of the manor along the bluestone road.

Several people quickly returned to Beicang City, and after waiting for another half an hour, Zi Yuan, who led the team to other places to inquire about the news, also came back quickly, and met with Gu Ju at the Ti Cavalry Guard, exchanging information with each other.

Liu Yu prepared a table of tables, accompanied Gu Juan to drink a guest and host, and did not end until nightfall, and personally sent Gu Juan to a secluded and elegant courtyard in the guard before leaving.

The sky darkened a little bit, and the wind and snow became much heavier than during the day, Gu Juan drank a few pots of tea, walked out of the room neatly dressed, glanced at Ziyuan who was dressed in a strong suit and put on leather armor, and gently exhaled a breath of white air, "Let's go, a few of the most suspicious places, let's look for them one by one." ”

He paused at this point, and a smile of expectation appeared on his face, "I was at most thirty percent sure that I could find the target, but now with a precious monster-absorbing physique like you, how can I soar to more than sixty percent." ”

"Let's go, let's start with the mass grave in the east of the city you said, and see what is so special about it. ”

Half an hour later, Gu Juan split the miserable white phantom floating around in two pieces with an axe, enjoying the trembling feeling of the double value bonus, and rushed to the next suspected location of the strange incident under the leadership of Ziyuan.

When midnight came, the two of them went around and around, and finally came to the gate of Mu Guogong's manor outside the city.

"Strange spirits gather, hundreds of ghosts walk at night, I can't figure out now, whether your monster-absorbing physique is too powerful, or whether they are because of this manor that they are surrounded by the periphery of Beicang City, forming a strange situation that attracts each other, but also restrains each other. ”

The time was already close to midnight, and Gu Juan was once again standing in front of the door of Mufu Manor, looking at the lion and tiger beast with half of its head missing on one side, and couldn't help but squint his eyes slightly.

He remembered that when he came in the morning, the angle of the stone sculpture did not seem to be like this.

In addition, there are signs of expansion in the broken gaps of the beast's head, and new cracks and fractures have appeared on the original basis.

Quietly, the paper spirit guide was released by him.

Then a mourning shed descended from the sky, right across the gate of the manor.

"From the ground and from the air, the soldiers divided into two ways to explore this garden. ”

As soon as Judge Gu gave the order, a group of paper warriors rushed out of the portraits hanging in the spirit shed and sank into the door of the black hole.

Immediately afterwards, paper cranes rose into the sky and quickly merged into the snowstorm.

He waited for a moment, and was about to follow the last group of paper warriors into the manor, but suddenly squinted his eyes and watched the dark red gate creak and close by itself.

The next moment, Lingyin's face changed suddenly, "Lord, all the armor soldiers and paper cranes under the command of the slave maid have lost contact. ”

Gu Juan took a deep breath, held the slightly hot axe handle, and two faint flames ignited in his eyes, considering whether to put a fire first to expel the yin and evil qi in this obviously problematic garden.

At this moment, the tooth-aching sound of the doorshaft turning, and the closed vermilion door slowly opened again.

An old woman with a slumped body appeared on the bluestone pavement, carrying a worn lantern in her left hand and an old broom in her right hand, sweeping the road one by one.