After one night, the sun shone brightly. After being cold for about a week, the weather suddenly warmed up a lot.
It was already like this in the north. The temperature in southern Yunnan was even more comfortable, and the sun looked even brighter. However, Guo Zhenghe was in a very bad mood because something had happened in He County again. Another person had died. Three people had died all of a sudden. The three people who had eaten together had been poisoned this time. It was obvious that they had been poisoned. The owner of the restaurant had been taken into custody. The restaurant owner was completely dumbfounded.
How could this be? How could this be?
He kept repeating that sentence.
After a preliminary investigation, the suspicion of the restaurant could be ruled out because the raw materials they used were not problematic. So, how could the three people have been poisoned?
The criminal investigation experts in the province were also having a headache. The original case had not been solved, and now there was a new problem.
"Let's figure out what kind of poison it is first!" This was the first direction they determined.
For this reason, they had sent the blood samples of the deceased in the previous three cases to Jing for analysis by a specialized laboratory. They had already come to a preliminary conclusion. The people who died in the three cases were all poisoned by the same toxin, but the measurements were different. The blood samples of the deceased in the fourth case were sent to Jing as soon as possible.
"How could such a thing happen in such a small county?"
"Stop complaining. We are here to solve this problem."
"I don't know if those two have made any progress."
In the Valley of Thousands of Medicine, hundreds of miles away …
"What? Someone died again?" Yang Guanfeng, who received the news, was very surprised.
Lu Guanfeng lit a cigarette and smoked silently.
"Alright, I got it. We have some gains here, but there is no breakthrough progress." Yang Guanfeng hung up the phone after saying a few words.
"Something happened in He County again. Three people suddenly died while eating in a restaurant. They were poisoned."
"I don't think it was done by the people in this stockade to commit a crime against the wind at this time," Lu Xiufeng analyzed. "We are still investigating here. As long as they are not stupid, they would not do such a thing."
"Are they framing us?"
"Yes, most likely," Yang Guanfeng said.
"What about the incident on the mountain in the forest two days ago?"
"There must be some unspeakable secret in this village, but it should be different from that case," Lu Xiufeng analyzed.
Yang Guanfeng also lit a cigarette. "I think that even if the case outside has something to do with the people here."
He blew out a smoke ring.
"They did that to lure us here, take our hands, and unveil the mystery here," Yang Guanfeng said. "Most likely, those people are still from this stockade. They are just another group of people who have a deep hatred for the Miaoxi River."
"Well, I agree with your analysis," Lu Xiufeng said.
"Unfortunately, the Miaoxi River has absolute authority here," Lu Xiufeng said. "The people in this stockade are too conservative. As Miao Qingfeng said, they abide by the rules that have been passed down for hundreds of years. Those things are more binding than the law. We are outsiders. It is normal for them to reject and doubt us. In addition, there may be eyes and ears everywhere in this stockade. Even if there are individual people who have other ideas and have opinions about the Miaoxi River, they would not dare to express it.
"Who is that person?"
"Why don't we try making a phone call?"
"No." Lu Xiufeng shook his head.
"It's too risky."
A spy could play a huge role at a critical moment. Even though they still didn't know what the spy was thinking and whether he wanted to kill them with a borrowed knife, they still didn't know.
"Well, what a headache!" Lu Xiufeng lay on the bed and stared at the top of the wooden house.
"The people outside are constantly killing people. Their purpose is to lead us to pay attention to this stockade. Now that we are here, we can't find anything useful."
"No matter what secrets there are in this stockade, those who keep killing innocent people outside deserve to die the most," Lu Xiufeng said. His low voice was full of anger.
"Maybe we can talk to Chief Miao tomorrow," Yang Guanfeng said.
"Talk to him? Talk about what?"
"Talk openly and honestly," Yang Guanfeng said. "Ask him to send someone out with us to solve the case outside first."
"But, what if our judgment is wrong? Is this matter really related to him?"
"Then, we will still give ourselves away," Yang Guanfeng said. "We have to keep an eye on him as much as possible. Even if we continue to stay here, there won't be any entry points."
"If we make any more progress, I'm afraid both of us will have to lie down."
"OK, it's settled then," Lu Xiufeng said after thinking for a while.
They had been there for several days and found some problems. They also had some inferences, but there was no evidence for these problems and inferences. They were purely logical inferences.
In the wooden house in the middle of the stockade …
"Did someone die again?"
"Yes, three more died."
"Well, the people outside are really incompetent," a middle-aged man said in a muffled voice.
"It's not that they are incompetent," Miaoxi River said. "It's just that the opponent is too cunning."
"Chief, why don't we send someone out to help?"
"How can we help?" Miaoxi River asked. "If we really send someone out, we may be treated as an important suspect," Miaoxi River said. "Moreover, the enemy is in the dark, and we are in the open. If we really get into trouble, we won't be able to explain ourselves."
If he had known that it would lead to such problems, he would have eliminated the source of the problem and not left any hidden dangers.
"You guys go down first. Let me think about it."
"Yes."
Miaoxi River sat there with his eyes closed and meditated.
The next morning, the sun rose above normal.
Early in the morning, Yang Guanfeng and Lu Xiufeng found out about Miao Qingfeng and said that they wanted to see Miaoxi River.
"Please come with me."
After seeing Miaoxi River, they told him their purpose for coming.
"Well, I'll send someone to help you," Miaoxi River said. He agreed to their request after thinking for a while and sent two people out. One of them was their old friend, Miao Qingfeng. The other was a middle-aged man named Miao Changhong.
They left the stockade in the morning. Yang Guanfeng drove straight out and arrived at He County after 8 o 'clock that night.
At night, the small county was very quiet, but the people living there were a little panicked. There had been a lot of rumors in the past few days. It was said that a terrible infectious disease had occurred in the county. So far, more than 20 people had died, and it was still spreading. The province had sent experts over, but they had not found a cure. Panic and rumors were very easy to spread.
Bang! Guo Zhenghe threw a cup.
"Master, calm down." Xu Xinyuan hurriedly tried to persuade him when he saw the situation.
"The experts from the province have not made any progress," Yang Guanfeng said angrily. "If people continue to die, it will alarm Jing!"
Xu Xinyuan was silent after hearing that. He knew the stakes involved. If Jing knew about it, this matter would be completely impossible to suppress.
At that moment, a phone call came in.
"Well, okay, I got it. Okay, I agree," Guo Zhenghe said.
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