If you have money, you will naturally have to squander it.

Xu Yan went to Yibao Building and bought two hundred animal skin talisman papers in one go, which cost 2,000 taels.

There is no way, making talismans is a process of burning money. Before the final perfection is achieved, you have to keep burning.

After all the two hundred talisman papers were used up, a total of two complete fire spirit talismans were made.

Adding to the previous three pictures, there are now a total of five fire spirit talismans in Xu Yan’s hand.

Other people's fire spirit talismans are all carried together, and Xu Yan's fire spirit talismans are all rolled up by him on crossbow arrows. They can be thrown or shot, and they are more convenient and flexible when used.

Five days later, a new case appeared.

Xu Yan received a bizarre case, which could dispatch four coroners, and his merit scores jumped to two points each.

Tasks that can achieve two points of merit are bound to be difficult.

Xu Yan found Feicai and Mu Zhengchu at the first time, and finally called Qi Yuanjian.

A group of four people took the corpse refining, left the imperial city, and rushed to Lijiazhuang, five hundred miles away.

This case is bloody.

The owner of Lijiazhuang's family was killed overnight, and the merchants were unscathed and did not even hear any sound.

The local government office did not dare to take over the strange family massacre and reported it directly to Sitianjian.

Lijiazhuang is a manor specializing in growing tea. The owner's family has made a living by growing tea for three generations. The tea house opened in the imperial city is quite large.

This is an ordinary tea house family. The family is more responsible and has no bad record. The house keeps many shopkeepers who specialize in growing tea, and the treatment is not cheap.

Lijiazhuang is divided into inner and outer houses, similar to a huge courtyard. The owner and his family live in inner and outer houses, while the customers all live in outer houses.

On the night of the incident, no merchant left the manor, and no one heard any screams.

So there were rumors that there were haunted ghosts and people in the village were panic.

The owner's family died overnight, and the only survivor was the owner's younger brother.

After the group arrived, they first found the butler at the village to find out the situation.

After observing his expressions, he did not find that the butlers and the shopkeepers had the motives for committing crimes and their strange expressions, and they all looked worried.

Even the experienced and skilled film did not think that the murderer was the shopkeeper, so the first suspicion target fell directly on the owner's brother.

However, after seeing the owner's younger brother, his previous suspicion was immediately dispelled.

There is a large iron cage in the ancestral hall of Lijiazhuang. The railings are as thick as arms and are extremely strong. The owner's younger brother is locked in an iron cage.

It’s not that he was just locked up. According to the shopkeeper, this person has lived in an iron cage for two or three months.

After asking carefully, I learned the reason.

The owner of the manor's younger brother is a battle-hardened centurion of the border army and a veteran on the battlefield. At the end of last year, he returned to the farm to retire.

Just raising more individuals is nothing to the owner of Lijiazhuang. If the brothers get together, the owner of the owner will be very happy.

The owner of the manor had an extremely irritable temper and beat and scolded the merchants at every turn. He was very serious and injured several people in succession.

The owner of the manor believed that his younger brother had a heart disease after fighting on the battlefield for many years, so he specially invited a famous doctor to prescribe medicine for him.

I thought I would improve after being recuperated for a while, but this person's irritability became increasingly serious. Finally one day, the owner's own son, the nephew, was beaten half to death, and his legs were lame and his eyes were blinded.

The owner of the manor was indignant and helpless.

He had to build a solid iron cage and cruelly imprisoned his younger brother in the ancestral hall, and ordered him to repent in front of his ancestors and provide three meals on weekdays.

The owner of the manor was imprisoned and was mostly sleeping. Once he woke up, he would yell and curse in the ancestral hall, scolding him when he was tired and then sleeping. He was drowsy and seemed to be crazy.

After learning about the past, Xu Yan came to the iron cage and broke the cage with his hands.

Strong enough.

Not to mention a veteran, the corpse ghosts can't come out even if they go in.

Xu Yan looked at the weird guy in the cage.

The man was burly and sloppy, with a sour smell on his body, and his dry hair was sticking together, silently like a dead person.

"How many keys are there in total, and who is on whom?" Feicai looked at the local yamen runners following him.

"The only key I found on the owner of the manor during the autopsy was found, and it is now kept by the butler." The yamen runner replied truthfully.

The butler was an elderly man. After hearing this, he immediately trembled and took out a key from his arms and planned to hand it over.

Feicai waved his hand and said, "You should keep it first, keep it properly and don't lose it."

The key can only be used to open the iron cage. I don’t want to release a lunatic. This is the only survivor of the owner’s family, so it’s better to keep it in the cage for retirement.

Anyway, with such a big family business, it’s okay to raise a madman until he dies.

Everyone left the ancestral hall.

"What do you think?" Feicai discussed with Xu Yan and the others.

"Unless there are ghosts and monsters, the murderer will definitely be hidden among the shopkeeper!" Qi Yuanju guessed.

"It shouldn't be done by the patrons." Fei Cai said: "The yamen runners have investigated that after the incident, no one left the patrons in the patrons, and they were all here, and there were no practitioners among them. If they were ordinary people, it would be difficult to kill more than 30 people at a time without any sound."

"Lijiazhuang is located in the forest. Could it be that the monsters do it?" Mu Zhengchu expressed his own point of view.

I called the shopkeeper to inquire and learned that wolves have indeed appeared near Lijiazhuang in recent years.

There was even one time when the wolves destroyed a tea forest. The owner of the manor led the farmer to drive him away several times. Several farmers had seen a larger wolf from afar, the size of a donkey. They didn't know whether it was a demon wolf or not.

The four of them discussed and agreed to start with the wolf pack near Lijiazhuang.

As long as you find the wolf demon, it can prove that the murderer is a monster.

"It must be the wolf demon who killed someone!" Qi Yuanbiao concluded.

"It is very likely that the wolf demon has the intelligence to bypass the shopkeeper and sneak into the inner village and kill the owner's family in one breath." Fei Cai said.

"It is normal for a mountain to accept two tigers. It is a normal for the wolf demon to regard Lijiazhuang as a thorn in his eyes. Except for the wolf demon, it is difficult for anyone to kill more than 30 people at a time without being noticed by the shopkeepers in the outside village." Mu Zhengchu also felt that it was the wolf demon.

Xu Yan glanced at the direction of the ancestral hall.

Kill the owner's family in one go, and the guys in the cage can do it.

Veterans who have fought for a hundred years know the essence of assassination best...

On that day, four coroners led more than a hundred yamen runners to search the mountains.

The first battle was won.

Not only did he successfully find the cave where the wolf demon lives, he also killed an old monster, the wolf king.

Qi Yuanjiu held the wolf head and said happily: "How about Uncle Cai! Can we newcomers be the only one? We will deal with a wolf demon so quickly!"

Fei Cai smiled and said, "Xu Yan and Mu Zhengchu are almost the same. You guys are still far from it."

Qi Yuanguang let out a loud voice, and his head was dejected, which made Xu Yanmu Zhengchu and the others laugh.

The mission in Lijiazhuang was unbelievably smooth.

When he returned to the village, Feicai piled up the wolf head and the wolf corpse together, and kept it back to the West Yai to sew it. Maybe he could continue to use it.

It was getting dark and everyone decided to rest in the village for one night.

As the wolf demon was killed, the panic-ridden tourists came to rest one after another.

As night fell, Lijiazhuang was much more lively.

The chef from the outer village brought out all the vegetables and meat in the kitchen and made a lot of food and drink to entertain the adults of Si Tianjian and the yamen runners in the yamen.

There is no cloud tonight.

The moonlight through the window looks particularly cold.
Chapter completed!