Volume 1 Zhangqiao Iron Coffin Chapter 23: Master
Wow!
Everyone was stunned!
But the person who descended from the sky and held up the iron coffin with one hand was actually a woman with a western face!
Moreover, she is very beautiful!
However, the detectives present were all very familiar with this woman and knew her violent temper. They immediately fell silent and some even retreated.
"Xu Tanzi!" Looking at Xu Zun rolling on the ground in a very embarrassed state, Huo Anu stood tall and proud, "How is it? I saved your life!"
In fact, even if Huo Anu had not taken action just now, Xu Zun could have easily avoided it.
Seeing the iron coffin land safely on the ground, Xu Zun simply sat cross-legged on the ground, looked up at Huo Anu, and asked:
"Aren't you going back?"
"Xu Tanzi," Huo Anu put away his iron umbrella and pointed at the iron coffin, asking irrelevantly, "What on earth is this? It's so strange!"
"Tsk..." Xu Zun snorted unhappily.
Seeing Xu Zun’s gloomy face, Huo Anu extended the iron umbrella to him, wanting to help him up.
However, Xu Zun did not touch the iron umbrella at all. Instead, he got up from the ground, without even shaking off the dirt on his body, and walked straight into the charity cemetery.
"Hey? You bastard," Huo Anu followed behind, staring at him with his big shining eyes and cursing, "How can you be so ungrateful? I was the one who saved you... Hey..."
Xu Zun ignored her and entered the hall where the bodies were kept.
In the huge morgue, there were only four caskets with corpses on them, covered with white cloth and smelling unpleasant.
"Xu Tanzi," Huo Anu was still not giving up, "If I hadn't intervened in time, you would have turned into a puddle of mud! Why don't you thank me?"
"Shut up!" Finally, Xu Zun couldn't stand it anymore and shouted, "Don't think I don't know how the coffin fell down!"
"Ah? You..."
This one sentence stunned Huo Anu, and Nie stared at Xu Zun blankly.
It turned out that Xu Zun had already known that Huo Anu had not really left.
Firstly, she was ordered by Mr. Shen to protect Xu Zun, so even if she was unwilling, she dared not disobey easily.
Secondly, Huo Anu is very curious, and she must be very curious about what kind of trouble Xu Zun had encountered.
However, Xu Zun did not expect that this woman from the Western Regions would actually shoot the rope with a hidden weapon in order to save herself, staging a good show of a strong woman saving a handsome man!
In this way, Xu Zun would owe her a favor, and she could continue her bodyguard mission naturally.
But unexpectedly, Xu Zun had already seen through her little trick, causing this hot-tempered woman to blush and look embarrassed.
"You..." She asked in disbelief, "You saw everything? Impossible? Aren't you Xu Xiaotan?"
"Don't bother me, I'm annoyed!" Unexpectedly, Xu Zun didn't want to argue with her, and immediately went to the body and prepared to check it.
At this moment, he suddenly remembered Wang Shuncai, and asked the constable outside loudly: "Where is Wang Shuncai!?"
"Sir, sir..." A famous detective stepped forward and replied, "We haven't found it yet!"
"Haven't found it yet?" Xu Zun frowned.
"Yes," the detective reported, "We went to his house and looked for him, but he wasn't there. We also searched all the places he often went to!"
"What's his home like? Is there anything unusual?" Xu Zun asked.
"No," the detective replied, "there's nothing unusual. The chickens at home are still there. They don't look like they've been away for a long time!"
As he said this, the constable wanted to go into the house to talk.
"That's enough," Xu Zun waved his hand at him, "Keep looking! If you can't find it, get someone else to do the autopsy!"
"Yes!" The constable left happily.
"Huo Wangwang," Xu Zun finally took a look at the beautiful Western Region woman and asked, "Would my fiancée be happy to let you be my bodyguard?"
"Huh? Are you asking me? Huo Wangwang...how dare you give me a nickname?" Huo Anu widened his eyes.
Wangwang tongwangwang, Xu Zun was implying that she was barking like a dog.
"When you stop calling me Xu Tanzi, I will stop calling you Huowangwang!" Xu Zun said indifferently.
"You!?" Huo Anu was angry, but looking at the corpse parked in the hall, his expression was a little unnatural.
Although she is skilled in martial arts, she seldom deals with the dead.
"Your nickname was given by Miss Shen," Huo Anu looked at the corpse and said hesitantly, "As for whether Miss Shen agrees to let me be your bodyguard..."
"Okay, I get it!" Without waiting for Huo Anu to answer, Xu Zun turned around again, walked to one of the corpses, reached out and lifted the white cloth.
"Ah?" Huo Anu recognized the deceased at a glance and said in surprise, "Isn't this Liu Zhubu? Is he dead?"
"Otherwise...why would Mr. Shen send you to protect me?" Xu Zun said casually, then leaned over to observe the corpse.
But the corpse's face was purple and its lips were black, showing obvious signs of poisoning.
"So serious?" Huo Anu muttered as he looked at the corpse, "Can officials die too? Oh no, this is the first time I've seen a dead official!"
"Hey?" Xu Zun had already discovered something before he had even examined it carefully. He pointed at Liu Zhang's neck and asked, "Look at his neck bone. Is it broken?"
Hearing the question, Huo Anu came forward, pinched it bravely, nodded and said: "Indeed, this method is different from mine, it was not done by me!"
"..."Xu Zun was speechless and looked at Huo Anu for three seconds.
"My Chinese is not good," Huo Anu said again, "What I mean is that the person who killed him is as skilled as me in martial arts!"
"Oh?" Xu Zun's eyes lit up and he asked, "Why do you think so?"
"Look," Huo Anu said, pinching the corpse's neck, "his cervical vertebra is broken very neatly, exactly at the fatal point!
"This shows that the opponent has profound skills and his attack was clean and efficient, almost a fatal move! If it were an ordinary person, the bones would be twisted or even broken!"
"Oh..." Xu Zun seemed to understand something. "So, this so-called master also knows a lot about the human skeleton?"
"You can say that!" Huo Anu said, "High-level assassins will receive training in this area! But..." She pointed at the corpse and said, "Why does Liu Zhubu look like he was poisoned? And it seems to be snake venom..."
Xu Zun immediately pried open Liu Zhang's mouth and observed as he spoke: "There is no color change inside his throat. I suspect someone killed him and then deliberately smeared poison on him to disguise it as poisoning! Weird..."
"Yes, why disguise?" Huo Anu was also curious and asked Xu Zun, "Where was Liu Zhubu killed? What did he, an old man, do?"
"The Iron Coffin Case happened two years ago," Xu Zun said to himself, "The last time it happened, the county magistrate was dismissed and the county lieutenant was exiled...
"And this time, the chief clerk was found dead in the coffin! Could it be..." He opened his mouth wide and said, "The murderer is coming for our Xinye County Government? The next one..."
"You are the next one!?" Huo Anu was extremely excited.
"No! County Magistrate Luo is older than me, so he seems to be more dangerous than me, right?" Xu Zun said, "There is also our County Magistrate Qiu, and of course, there may be me!"
"Wait..." Huo Anu understood something and asked seriously, "You just said that Liu Zhubu died in a coffin? Is that the iron coffin?"
Seeing that Xu Zun did not deny it, Huo Anu held the iron umbrella and said excitedly: "Wow, what an amazing case! Fortunately, you are here! Xu Xiao... Oh, County Lieutenant Xu, where did that iron coffin come from?"
Xu Zun did not answer her question, but walked to a corpse nearby and lifted the white cloth, revealing the body of the mysterious Taoist priest.
The Taoist priest still had a ferocious look on his face!
Xu Zun took a closer look and found that there were also obvious signs of poisoning on his face.
Liu Zhubu died peacefully, but why did he look so hideous? It was as if he saw something horrible before he died.
"Hey?" Unexpectedly, when Huo Anu came over, he pointed at the corpse and said, "Isn't this the Taoist priest from the Changsheng Temple?"
