Returned to his seat from the room director's office.
Li Hao glanced at the calendar on the table, July 12, 1730.
"Almost a year!"
Muttered in a low voice.
Across the street, Chen Na asked curiously: "What's almost a year?"
Li Hao smiled and explained: "I said it's been almost a year since I joined the Inspection Department. ."
"Oh, you have such a good memory."
Chen Na didn't pay attention anymore. It doesn't make any sense if anyone remembers this.
Li Hao didn’t say much.
He remembers!
I remember it very clearly!
On August 1, 1729, he joined the Inspection Department.
Just a few days ago, on July 23, the day after the incident, Li Hao chose to drop out of school. Soon, Li Hao joined the Inspection Department.
On July 22, 1729, a self-immolation occurred in Yincheng Ancient Courtyard.
Zhang Yuan, a second-level student of Guyuan, set himself on fire outside his dormitory and was burned alive.
In order not to affect the reputation of Yincheng Ancient Academy, and after the inspection by the Inspection Department, it was indeed caused by an accident, the news of the matter was blocked, and very few people knew that a student of Yincheng Ancient Academy died.
Of course, one thing that didn’t make it a big deal was that Zhang Yuan’s parents were both dead, and he had no relatives or victims at home, so the matter was quickly suppressed.
Afterwards, Li Hao dropped out of school, and his tutor also speculated that it was related to Zhang Yuan. It is said that Li Hao and Zhang Yuan had a good relationship.
"Zhang Yuan!"
I muttered silently in my heart, it was almost a year since Xiao Yuan died.
The scene of that day came to mind again.
The red blood shadow seemed to hold Xiaoyuan's soul, and the blood-red flame burned Xiaoyuan's soul. The pain, struggle, collapse, and various emotions were not seen by others, but Li Hao seemed to See clearly.
He wanted to step forward to stop him, but at that moment, Xiaoyuan's mouth kept opening and closing. In such extreme pain and unable to make any sound, his mouth kept moving.
Others may think it is wailing, but only Li Hao knows that it is not.
"Escape!"
Yes, that is letting yourself escape.
Li Hao is too familiar with Zhang Yuan!
Keep yourself away, let yourself escape.
Zhang Yuan did not die in the dormitory. When he died, he was only wearing a pair of underwear. He looked ridiculous, but Li Hao never found it ridiculous.
When Zhang Yuan died, he should have been ready to sleep, but he escaped from the dormitory in extremely painful circumstances. The direction he was going was Li Hao's dormitory!
He couldn't make a sound, so he smashed a tile with almost the greatest perseverance. Only then in the dead of night did he cause a lot of noise. Many people went out to check, including Li Hao.
Is Zhang Yuan asking for help?
This is what outsiders think, but Li Hao thinks...…no.
He was warning himself. Zhang Yuan escaped from the dormitory, made a noise, attracted Li Hao, and finally said "escape" silently. This was not asking for help from Li Hao, but asking Li Hao for help. He escapes.
"14 years."
Li Hao murmured again in his heart.
He and Zhang Yuan have known each other for 14 years. They are not just classmates for two years as others imagined. They have known each other for 14 years. From childhood to adulthood, they have been classmates, or best friends?
It’s just that both of them are taciturn people, and the friendship between men does not need to always be talked about.
Just like Zhang Yuan, at the moment before death, he struggled to escape with extremely strong willpower, just to convey a message to Li Hao and escape!
Zhang Yuan’s self-immolation case was finally suppressed and became silent.
Li Hao, a close friend, naturally not many people would investigate deeply.
"Xiaoyuan asked me to run away, was it because of something he saw or heard, or because of pure fear? Or... Xiaoyuan knew that Xueying's next target was me?"
This is also a question that Li Hao has been thinking about for a year.
He couldn't imagine how much pain Zhang Yuan endured. At that moment, he still warned himself. Li Hao felt that it was not simple. Maybe... Xueying's next target is himself!
"Six people, plus me, maybe seven people. What do we have in common?"
"Spanning ten years, time is getting faster and faster. If Counting me, there are seven people, except for me and Zhang Yuan, there is nothing relevant. Is it a random target, or is there a clear purpose?"
Li Hao gently rubbed his forehead and looked in front of him. These are all the files of six people, and they are also some clues he has collected through various channels over the past year.
It has been ten years since the first person died. There may or may not have been others before that. Li Hao has no way of knowing.
The time span spans ten years, and many things are actually difficult to query.
"Gender? Age? Occupation? Identity? Common contact person?"
Li Hao has read the document in front of him many times. In the conventional sense, Li Hao has something in common. Hao has never discovered that these are completely unrelated people.
"Why did Xueying kill them? Did they threaten Xueying, or did they have other purposes?"
Countless doubts filled Li Hao's mind.
Of course, if you keep pursuing it, there will be one more thing... revenge!
No one would care if Zhang Yuan died, but Li Hao did.
The night watchman side is full of uncertainties. If he had not been able to get effective clues, or had no good way to deal with a blood shadow that no one could see, Li Hao would not have been able to deal with it. He hoped that the night watchman would kill the blood shadow, and he even hoped to kill that guy himself!
"Li Hao, look at the information of those people again?"
Across the way, Chen Na met Li HaoOpening the familiar document again, I couldn't help but ask.
She has seen it many times in the past year. Li Hao has been reading this document, and the document is getting thicker and thicker, and Li Hao can almost see the edges.
But every time she wanted to take a look, Li Hao quickly closed it.
I have only vaguely seen it, it is some personal information of several people.
Li Hao raised his head and showed a pure smile, "Sister Na, just take a look."
"Tsk!"
Chen Na looked dismissively. Just take a look, have you been able to watch it for almost a year?
This guy is not honest sometimes.
"I've been watching for so long, Li Hao, what do you want to check? There are so many veteran inspectors here. You don't ask, so you just check by yourself. You are a newbie, what can you find? Why don't you give me some help?" Let me take a look, maybe I can give you some advice, don’t worry, I won’t leak it.”
Chen Na smiled and said, “What do you think, show me?”
Really? Very curious!
Li Hao didn't want people to know that he was investigating this before, and he was also worried about attracting Hongying's attention. But now, he has been unable to find anything, and the case has been reported to Wang Jie and now to Chen Na. It’s not impossible to take a look.
However, after thinking for a while, Li Hao still said: "Then take a look, but don't bother other people."
He didn't want too many people to know that he was paying attention. this.
Chen Na is also considered a newcomer, not so sensitive and sharp. Once others see the materials of these people, they may quickly think of the previous cases and know that Li Hao is investigating the self-immolation case.
When I showed it to Chen Na, Li Hao also looked at it for too long, but found nothing. I don’t know if it was because he was too involved and the authorities were obsessed with it, or because there was really no connection.
Chen Na, an outsider, might be able to see something?
Well, Li Hao actually didn't have any hope, but he was a little unwilling to gain anything for a long time.
"Don't worry!"
Chen Na suddenly beamed, finally having a chance to see Li Hao's little secret.
Afraid that Li Hao would regret it, she hurriedly knelt down, snatched the document from Li Hao's hand, and quickly looked through it.
After a while, Chen Na said: "Li Hao, what do you want to find in these documents? I took a look, and there are too many. You have recorded every little thing. When you read the memoirs, what do you want to achieve?"
Li Hao thought for a while and said, "What the six of them have in common!"
Chen Na was speechless. .
She looked through it carefully and found six people, all of different ages, occupations and identities, both men and women, and in different circles.
And those who died early have been dead for 10 years!
The latest one died a year ago.
What do these six people have in common?
Over the past year, Li Hao has co-authoredThey are all watching this, it’s really... quite leisurely.
But after taking a look at the information of the last person, Zhang Yuan, a student of Yincheng Ancient Academy, Chen Na vaguely knew something. Li Hao’s main purpose was still because of this person, right?
"Zhang Yuan died on July 22, 1729...it seems not long after Li Hao dropped out of school, or did he drop out around that time?"
Chen Na looked carefully For a while, I thought of Li Hao's dropping out of school, and seemed to know something.
A student from Guyuan did not drop out of school because of his promising future. Some people have always failed to understand. After seeing this file today, Chen Na felt that she might have some clues.
Thinking of this, Chen Na, who had previously read the files with a playful heart, became a little more serious.
Did Li Hao suspect that Zhang Yuan was killed by him?
Could it be that all six people were killed by homicide?
A series of cases?
......
Chen Na was looking at the file carefully. Li Hao waited for a while, but couldn't get any feedback. He didn't care too much and didn't care about it anymore. Instead, he thought about his own situation. What to do next.
Now, the case has been handed over to the Inspection Department, which should investigate it, but Li Hao doesn't have much hope.
Unless the night watchman gets involved soon!
"The key is, if the next target is me, maybe I will encounter a blood shadow in the near future. Is the red shadow I vaguely saw a few days ago a blood shadow? Is it looking for me? Or is it looking for me? He said that he had found me, but he didn’t dare to take action just because of my identity?”
The Inspection Department is, after all, a law enforcement agency. If a student burns himself to death, it may not cause much commotion, even if it is ancient. The same goes for college students.
But if a third-level inspection officer dies, as one of our own, the inspection department will definitely check and investigate carefully. This is more serious than the death of a student.
"According to the information I know, every time this blood shadow appears, there should be a time limit. It won't last too long. It may even appear at a specific point."
p>"The deceased people actually have something in common, but... it's a little unclear!"
In the past year, Li Hao has not learned nothing.
At least he found out one thing, including the day when Zhang Yuan died and six people died, the weather didn't seem to be very good.
Thunderstorms, ball lightning, rainy days...
Not many people care about this kind of weather conditions, and Li Hao really can't find any more clues. Only then will you pay attention.
On the day Zhang Yuan died, Li Hao clearly remembered that it rained lightly at night, but it was not too heavy.
"They only appear when it rains, or they only come out to commit crimes when the weather is bad."
Li Hao kept writing something on the paper, and soon tore the paper into pieces. After being completely shattered, he put down his pen and fell into deep thought.
As he was thinking, opposite Chen Na suddenly exclaimed in a low voice: "I found it!"
Li Hao was startled and quickly raised his head, discovered it?
What did you find?
How is that possible!
He had no hope. Chen Na noticed something after just looking at it for a while. Li Hao felt that this guy was deceiving him.
Li Hao frowned, and soon Su raised his brows and restored his smile: "Sister Na, what did you find?"
Chen Na vaguely saw the way Li Hao frowned before, a little bit Embarrassed, then I remembered that Li Hao was very concerned about this matter. When he was not joking, he said with a little embarrassment: "Well... I actually haven't read it all. There is too much information."
Li Hao was confused. Bo, guessed it.
There is no disappointment, because there is no hope.
But the next moment, Chen Na still said: "I haven't finished reading it, but...it seems to be somewhat related, but I'm not sure."
As she said, she Lifting up the paper next to him, "I have the habit of writing and drawing. I just looked at the document and I wrote down the names of several parties involved."
Li Hao glanced at it and smiled slightly. nod.
Six parties!
Li Hao can recite these names by heart, so what can he discover?
It’s not the same name, not the same surname, some are two characters, some are three characters, it’s simply completely irrelevant.
When Chen Na saw Li Hao's attention, she quickly said: "Zhou Qing, Hong Jiao, Wang Haoming, Liu Yunsheng, Zhao Shihao, Zhang Yuan, are these six people's names?"
Li Hao nodded slightly.
Chen Na looked at the name on the paper again, and suddenly felt a little unsure again. She was afraid that if she said it, Li Hao would think that it would be bad if she fooled him.
A little embarrassed, Chen Na coughed lightly and said: "Forget it, just pretend I didn't say anything. I'll take a closer look and it doesn't seem right. There are still two more to go."
"What?"
Li Hao was stunned for a moment: "What are two more missing?"
Chen Na became even more embarrassed: "If there is one more person named Zheng and one person named Li Yes, that's right, not now... Ahem, I just said that, don't take it seriously."
She didn't want to say it anymore, it was too embarrassing!
Li Hao was shocked.
Why two more?
The surname is Li...his surname is Li!
There is still one person surnamed Zheng, one less... Li Hao can only find some cases from ten years ago, because if it is more than ten years ago, some undoubted cases will destroy the files because of some accidents There are too many cases, too many cases, and not all confidential rooms can be kept.
At this moment, Li Hao's heart was shaken, but his expression remained unchanged. He smiled and said: "Sister Na, what do you want to say? What is there? Let's talk about it. Just treat it as a chat. Why do you say you want it?" Two more surnames are appropriate?"
Chen Na looked at Li Hao and asked curiously: "Are you not from Yincheng?"
"Yes."
"Then..."
As Chen Na said, she thought of something, nodded and said: "I understand, are there...no elderly people in your family?"people? ”
“My grandparents passed away early. "
Li Hao became more and more curious, why did he contact the old man again?
Seeing that he was interested, Chen Na was no longer embarrassed and said: "If there is an old man at home, In other words, some elderly people like to speak some local dialects. My grandma used to like to speak these when I was a child. ”
Chen Na thought for a while and recalled before saying: “I used to live with my grandma, and my grandma liked to sing some folk songs popular in Yincheng. I remember, there was a folk song that went like this..."
Chen Na imitated her grandmother's behavior before, cleared her throat, and sang in a low voice: "The sword of the Li family, the knife of the Zhang family, the knife of the Zhao family. The punches, the legs of the Liu family... the young master of the Zheng family is holding back! ”
After singing for a short period, Chen Na felt embarrassed and said with an embarrassed smile: “Singing in Mandarin is a bit unpleasant. In fact, my grandma used to sing very well in Yincheng dialect. Of course, it’s Some local operas may seem a bit unsophisticated to those who have never heard them before. ”
At this moment, Li Hao’s eyes flashed crazily.
Tuqu!
The Li family’s sword, the Zhang family’s knife...
There are eight surnames in this folk song!
Li, Zhang, Zhao, Liu, Wang, Hong, Zhou, and Zheng!
He grabbed Chen! The paper in Na's hand was not polite at all, and it instantly fell on the first name, Zhou Qing.
This is the one who died ten years ago!
It was also the first name that Li Hao found. A person involved in the self-immolation case
Then the salesperson Hong Jiao, and then Wang Haoming...
What if the first person to die was not Zhou Qing, but a person named Zhou Qing. Zheng, then Zhou Qing is the second, Hong Jiao is the third, Wang Hongming is the fourth...
In the Yincheng folk song, the eight major surnames are reversed, and the order actually matches the time of death.
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The last one to die, Zhang Yuan, corresponds to the Zhang family's knife.
That means... there is one more person who will die, and the other person's surname is Li. , the first one in the opera, the Li family's sword!
Li Hao's expression changed.
He looked at Chen Na hurriedly, unable to suppress the shock and excitement in his voice. Somewhat hoarse: "When did this song... begin to circulate? Who spread it..."
Chen Na was startled by his eyes and quickly calmed down, "Don't worry, Li Hao , many old people should have heard this song, but not many young people, so you don’t know. If you are interested, we can check it out slowly, don’t worry! ”
Li Hao took a deep breath and suppressed the impulse in his heart.
Don’t be anxious!
He didn’t expect that he just glanced at Chen Na. It actually gave such an important clue. Li Hao had never heard of this song, and no one had sung it. It should have ceased to be popular many years ago.
Because with the popularity of Mandarin, these local songs have become popular. Rural folk songs have long since been buried with the older generation and have been gradually lost.
Grandpa Li Hao died early in his generation, and Li Hao has never seen it, so naturally no one will sing it to him.
"Calm down!"
Li Hao shouted in his heart, why are you anxious? If you have a clue, this is the key, don't be anxious.
The key now is that I want to determine whether the first person to die is named Zheng.
Some of the case files from ten years ago have been destroyed in the confidential room, but there is no place to check them. Moreover, he does not need to check them in detail. He only needs to find out about fifteen to ten years ago. , as long as there is no one named Zheng who died due to self-immolation.
At this moment, Li Hao was both excited and scared.
If they really match up, then the next one...will be me!
Xiao Yuan must have seen something or heard something, so he allowed himself to escape.
"The sword of the Li family..."
"The sword of the Li family!"
Li Hao thought in his heart, his eyes suddenly widened, the Li family... ...with a sword!
PS: The update time is around four o'clock in the afternoon and ten o'clock in the evening. The new book period is tentatively scheduled to be updated twice a day. There is no way. The new book period here is about 40 days. I must finish it after it is put on the shelves. Let's update it depending on the situation. In the new book issue, we will also write more chapters on Eagle. This chapter will have five thousand.