The fat man followed Xie Bangui's words and looked around. Sure enough, he found that the yard where Yang Xin lived seemed to have been soaked in water. Everything was wet, and even the tiles were dripping with water. There were more than ten tiles covered in water.

The drowned insects fell under the eaves in white bulges, looking as if they had been soaked in water for an hour.

The county magistrate Yang Xin was lying on his desk, his abdomen was bulging high, and his body was swollen and white. He looked like a floating corpse that had been soaked in water for several days. Xie Bangui walked to the corpse and stretched out his hands to press on his stomach.

After two clicks: "This man has been dead for at least two months. Do you think someone has been bringing him food?"

"Yes...yes..." Master held the door frame with his hand, but his body slid down uncontrollably: "Return the plate to the door."

The rice tray was placed at the door of the study. The four dishes and one soup were all bottomed out. Only a small piece of steamed bun remained in the rice bowl.

Xie Bangui's eyes circled the room twice, and finally landed on the closet in the corner: "Open the closet!"

The fat man carried Fang Tian's painted halberd far away and inserted the tip of the halberd into the crack of the cabinet door. He twisted his wrist and shook the cabinet door in half. First, a foul-smelling yellow water flowed out of the cabinet, followed by a body dressed as a government servant.

The floating corpse rolled out.

In addition to being swollen and white, the body was almost squeezed into an angular square shape by the cabinet. It seemed that someone had forced it into the closet and then drowned. Otherwise, his body would not have conformed to the specifications of the closet.

Natural deformation.

"Are there any dead people?" The fat man looked back at Xie Bangui.

Xie Bangui said: "There should be other corpses in the house, start looking for them."

"There is a body here..." Li Xiaoxin dug out a floating corpse from the box. The body's limbs rushed down and the body was folded in half. It was squeezed into the box like a bulging quilt, and the head was strangely pulled to the center.

His face was facing the ceiling, and his whole face was flattened by the lid of the box, except for his eyes, which were wide and round.

Li Xiaoxin couldn't help but shuddered: "This person was also drowned?"

"She must have drowned after being knocked into the box." Lao Qian stabbed the corpse's joints with a dagger: "All the limbs were broken, and the force of the attack was quite strong."

Xiao Cai jumped up to the rafter and shouted: "There is a corpse on the roof."

The corpse on the roof seemed to have just died and was not completely swollen. It was half stuck at the interface between the ceiling and the beam, with its hands hanging tightly on the wall. Some of its fingers were even broken.

Once inside the wall, the scene looked like a floating corpse caught in the cracks of the stone by the current.

Just as Li Xiaoxin was about to go up and get the body off, he tripped over something under his feet. When he lowered his head, he saw half of his fingers sticking out of the mud blocking his toes.

The last corpse in the room was buried under the table. The soil covering the corpse was like a swamp several feet square. It could sink a few inches with just a step of foot. Li Xiaoxin dug up the corpse without much effort.

came out.

Xie Bangui had the five corpses placed side by side in the middle of the room, and reached out to grab the master who was crumpled into mud: "Can you recognize who it is?"

"I can't see it, I can't see it..." The master didn't dare to look at the corpse at all.

Lao Qian pushed the gun and put it against the master's forehead, and said grimly: "Look at it carefully. Besides, you can't tell. I'm careful, I put you there too!"

"Master, please don't embarrass me!" The master was so frightened that he burst into tears: "Do those corpses still look like people? Who can tell?"

Xie Bangui waved his hand: "Except for Yang Xin, the corpses are all wearing the clothes of government officials. Is there any government officials in your county government who have not been on duty recently?"

"The adults are not in the hall anymore, who will be on duty?" Before the master could finish his words, Lao Qian's musket was pushed forward, which frightened the master and screamed: "I'll go check it out right now, I'll go right now

check……"

Lao Qian said coldly: "I'll give you a stick of incense. If you can't find out, I'll send you back to the west immediately."

"Yes, yes..." As soon as the master rolled away, Li Xiaoxin shouted: "Sir, there is a hole in the wall."

The hole in the wall was blocked behind a box, and was not revealed until Li Xiaoxin moved the body. There were two scratches on the ground outside the wall hole made by his knees, and further away there were several footprints.

It looked like someone climbed out through the hole in the wall and then ran away over the outer wall.

Xie Bangui walked around the hole in the wall and touched it a few times: "The entrance of the hole seems to have been dug out with a knife. Has anyone escaped from the house? Go find Master..."

In order to save his life, the master didn't even bother to use half a stick of incense, so he sent all three teams of government officials to the county government office. After the order, there were indeed five people missing. He immediately yelled angrily: "Where did those five people go?"

The head catcher stood up: "Some time ago, Mr. Yang said that he wanted to take a few people out, so I chose five smart brothers to follow him. When Mr. Yang came back, he didn't see them ordering anything. He said they were there for him.

Your Excellency has gone to do some business..."

"Where did they go? Have you never seen those five people again after that?" Xie Bangui walked over quickly from behind.

The catcher looked Xie Bangui up and down and said, "Who are you?"

Xie Bangui showed Liang Jinyiwei's waistband: "Say!"

"Yes, yes..." The head catcher was startled and said hurriedly: "I heard from Mr. Yang that he seemed to be going to Wujia Village. I didn't hear him mention what he was going to do specifically. At that time, I just thought his face was a bit unattractive.

I don’t feel like asking too much.”

Xie Bangui asked again: "What happened after they came back? They haven't seen anyone for two months, and you didn't even ask? The family members of those government officials didn't even come to ask?"

The catcher said cautiously: "We shouldn't ask too many questions about your lord's affairs. Besides... besides... Master Yang has always been strict. If you ask too many questions, you might get slapped with a slap in the face. As for those brothers... Master Yang had specifically ordered them at that time.

Looking for those who don’t have a family to hold them back, those brothers are all alone, there are a few..."

"Ahem..." The master coughed a few times to signal the arrester to stop talking nonsense.

But Lao Qian sneered: "A few of them are rogues found on the street, right?"

"Your Excellency is wise!"

The fat man waved his hand and said: "Everyone, go down! Go and ask me if anyone has seen those yamen servants in recent times. If you find out, come back and tell me immediately. I will give you a big reward."

After the fat man drove away the third class of government officials, he came up and said: "Brother, I think this is a bit evil! Five of the six people died, and they were all drowned in the water. How can people drown in a house?"

"

Xie Bangui frowned and said: "It's not strange for people to drown in a house. Water monsters with a slightly higher level of knowledge can do it. I'm just curious about how the government servant who dug out and escaped survived. According to what happened just now

Judging from the situation, the whole house was submerged in the water. Why is that one person okay?"

"Perhaps he has a treasure that can avoid water." Xiao Cai said: "You will understand everything if you find that person."
Chapter completed!