In his dream, Xie Qingzhang came to a brothel.

The lights in the brothel were dim. Xie Qingzhang used the light and looked around with difficulty. He vaguely remembered that this was the room where Xu Du died that day. When Xu Du died before, he had been here to join in the fun.

The dim lights in the room were on, and on the couch in front, a beauty was lying lazily, her vague figure looking extremely delicate in the dark room.

Xie Qingzhang slowly walked up to her, wanting to see her appearance, and also wanting to ask her whether this was a dream or real, although he knew that this beauty could not give him the answer.

The beauty turned her head slightly and was surprised to see someone in front of the couch.

Their eyes met, and Xie Qingzhang saw her face clearly.

It was the woman who was in the room on the day Xu Du died.

The woman flopped down from the bed. As soon as she stood up, she stumbled and was about to fall. Xie Qingzhang stretched out his hand to support her.

Unexpectedly, his foot slipped and he pushed the woman down.

The woman's head hit the edge of the couch, blood seeped out, her body went limp and she fell to the ground.

Xie Qingzhang hurriedly leaned over to check his breathing and found that he was dead.

The house suddenly became dark, and nothing could be seen. There seemed to be a creaking sound from the door of the house in the distance.

Xie Qingzhang stood up straight, wiped the fine sweat from his forehead that covered his eyes, and looked up, but saw nothing.

When he woke up again, Xie Qingzhang couldn't sit still and couldn't tell whether he was dreaming or waking up.

At dawn, Xie Qingzhang hurried out and walked to the brothel.

This brothel is the largest in Fengxiang City. Because Xu Du died here, there is no business anymore.

Seeing many people gathered from a distance, an ominous premonition enveloped Xie Qingzhang's heart.

When he walked to the door, the breeze carried the withered yellow leaves and gently slid them around. Xie Qingzhang asked the people walking by: "I wonder what happened here?"

The man drawled a long voice: "A woman died in the brothel last night. She died strangely. She hit her head on the edge of the couch and died in her room."

Xie Qingzhang felt a chill in his heart. Sure enough, his dream had come true again.

So I squeezed in through the crowd, wanting to see what was going on.

At a casual glance, among the many police officers, Li Jiuzhou was looking at him quietly.

Xie Qingzhang was horrified, as if he had really killed someone, so he turned around and left.

It was night when he returned home, and Xie Qingzhang did not dare to sleep anymore. He did not know how many people would die after he fell asleep.

So I took a pair of scissors and put them on the table to strengthen my courage, opened the window, took a copy of the Diamond Sutra and recited it loudly in front of the table, waiting for late night to come.

The dark night shrouded the sky like a devil, slowly approaching, but Xie Qingzhang still fell asleep.

This time, the person in front of me was the brothel's madam, who was crying non-stop.

The crying stopped, the old bustard looked up and saw Xie Qingzhang, stood up with difficulty, staggered to Xie Qingzhang, looked sternly, pointed at Xie Qingzhang: "How did you get in? You were the one who came to kill last night!"

Xie Qingzhang stepped forward and stretched out his hand to defend himself, but still couldn't make a sound. With a sound, he lowered his head and saw that he had a pair of scissors in his hand and stabbed them straight into the old bustard's body. His hands were covered with blood.

"You..." The madam didn't have time to say anything more, and her body fell limply.

Xie Qingzhang trembled all over, dropped the scissors in his hand, and staggered back a few steps.

When he woke up from the dream, Xie Qingzhang's face was wet. He didn't know whether it was tears or sweat. When would this suffering end and when would this dream end?

The most painful thing in life is waking up from a dream and having no way out.

Sure enough, another person died in the brothel. When the police inspected the body, they all found it very strange.

Xie Qingzhang hid in the corner and watched from a distance, feeling extremely painful in his heart. He raised his hand to wipe the corners of his eyes and looked around. He didn't want to suffer like this anymore.

Not far away, Li Jiuzhou slowly walked towards Xie Qingzhang.

Xie Qingzhang sweated on his forehead, coughed and cleared his throat to strengthen his courage.

Before Xie Qingzhang could sort out his emotions, Li Jiuzhou had already arrived: "Do you know how they died?"

Xie Qingzhang was shocked and at a loss. He didn't know how to speak. His eyes wandered for a long time, and finally said: "I...I don't know."

Li Jiuzhou's face straightened, "In recent days, one person has died every day in Fengxiang City. Every time I see you looking panicked, you can't settle the relationship."

It turns out that Li Jiuzhou had been doubting it for a long time.

I was just about to investigate Xu Shanren, but Xu Shanren died mysteriously that night.

Next was the brothel woman who sent him the Xu Mansion's accounts.

This time the old bustard died again.

These three murders happened so hastily that Li Jiuzhou never slept a wink. He couldn't figure out who was responsible for this series of murders and what methods were used?

Seeing that Xie Qingzhang appeared at the scene every time and looked strange, he investigated him and sent people to follow him secretly.

Xie Qingzhang straightened up: "I didn't kill those people." There was uncertainty in his words.

"Where have you been these past few nights? Why aren't you in your house?" Li Jiuzhou was surprised. For several nights in a row, the people who were following Xie Qingzhang had lost track of him.

"How did you know I wasn't in the house? I was always there." Xie Qingzhang defended himself with trembling words.

But he still couldn't believe that there were really strange things in the world that could kill people in dreams, so he didn't tell the scene in his dream.

Li Jiuzhou looked at Xie Qingzhang with some doubts in his eyes, and said Youyou: "I have been sending people to follow you, but you can always get rid of them."

After saying that, Li Jiuzhou paused and looked straight at Xie Qingzhang, with a sense of righteousness and anger: "I don't care what sorcery you use, and I don't care what grudges you have against them. If you kill innocent people indiscriminately, I will decide today." I want to take you back to the Yamen and find out the truth."

After Li Jiuzhou finished speaking, he stepped forward and grabbed Xie Qingzhang.

Xie Qingzhang's body was exhausted and he did not resist. He looked up at the sky with tears streaming down his face and said honestly: "I had a dream and killed them myself. Every time I woke up from the dream, people died. I don't want to be dreamed about like this again." The torture went on, but I really didn’t kill them.”

Li Jiuzhou hesitated for a moment, then let go of Xie Qingzhang's hand. Looking at Xie Qingzhang's helpless expression, he was also confused.

"Let me go back to the Yamen first and then talk about it." I didn't have any evidence that Xie Qingzhang committed murder, so I could only investigate slowly.

Li Jiuzhou waved his hand behind him, and several policemen rushed over and caught Xie Qingzhang.

"It would be great if we could really find out the truth." Xie Qingzhang's eyes flashed and he looked at Li Jiuzhou expectantly.

Li Jiuzhou thought for a moment and slowly said to him: "This matter is strange. I don't want a fourth person to die inexplicably like this, so I would like to ask you to cooperate with me in investigating the case, to find out what is going on, and to restore your innocence." .”

"I am willing to cooperate." Xie Qingzhang was also eager to prove his innocence and nodded repeatedly.
Chapter completed!