"Your uncle Qin Ding is missing, why didn't you look for it and only come to report it now?"
Cheng Muyou stared at Qin Shuai, who was kneeling under the hall.
"Back to the adults, the little ones don't dare."
"Don't dare?"
"Uncle told me before leaving, he was looking for the nine sages of the Sansu Temple, but since then he has never returned, that woman is a ruthless corner, the Tao is very clever, I think, she must have killed my uncle, if I rashly go up the mountain, wouldn't I also become a ghost under her knife."
"Nine Sages."
Cheng Muyou pronounced these three words word by word, "Who is she?"
” "She is a Taoist aunt, she just came to Xin'an not long ago, and she didn't know what demon magic she used, and the nearby villagers were confused, and everyone respected her very much, and her uncle just couldn't get used to her using demon methods to deceive people, so he went to her to theorize."
"Demon law?
As far as I know, your uncle is also a Taoist priest, so why do you say that the same sect has deceived people with demon magic?
” Qin Shuai hesitated for a long time, and then kowtowed suddenly, "I don't understand the grievances between them, but my lord, my uncle's disappearance is true, please find out." ” Cheng Muyou nodded, "I will send someone to find out the truth, if there is nothing else, you can go down first." ” Qin Shuai got up and withdrew from the court, and when he went out, he walked with a few people, the person who took the lead was extraordinarily heroic, and he walked with a cloak behind him, he walked into the court quickly, and shouted at Cheng Muyou, who closed his eyes and recuperated, "Brother Cheng, the little brother is here to disturb again." ” Just listening to the voice, Cheng Muyou had already guessed who it was, he stood up and smiled with a smile on his face, "Lord Liu, they all say that they will not go to the Three Treasures Hall if they have nothing to do, but it doesn't seem to be suitable for you here, I don't know if the virtuous brother came here this time or not?"
” Liu Xuzhu said with a smile, "Idlers also have busy things, and when I go to Guibao Land today, I really have something to ask Brother Tai for advice, and I can only ask Brother Tai for advice on this matter." ” "It must not be easy to make Lord Liu so attentive, please explain it in detail."
Liu Xujiao then told Cheng Muyou all about the corpse found in Kuizhou and what he saw in Changle Palace, and finally he said: "The Kuizhou County Order found out the identity of the master, but that person passed away ten years ago, and since then the Taoist temple has been abandoned for a long time, and no one knows what happened in the future." ” Cheng Muyou nodded, "I understand, but even if this is a mystery, why did the virtuous brother come all the way to Xin'an, according to the law of the Great Song Dynasty, local officials cannot cross jurisdictions." ” Liu Xuzhu looked at him with a straight face, "Of course I know this, but there is a piece of evidence, I want to ask Brother Cheng to help identify it."
He nodded behind him, and Han Wei immediately brought forward the pocket that had been carrying on his shoulder.
Inside the pocket was a human bone, which was blackened and looked unusually oozing.
Liu Xuzhu squatted down and pointed to a blue-gray shallow line on the bone, "Brother Cheng, look, this lead and tin wire proves that he died of poisoning, and the more than 20 corpses found in Kuizhou have these lines on each of them, but lead and tin poisoning is chronic, I really don't understand why the murderer used such an abrasive method to kill people."
Brother Cheng is the best at using medicine, and there is no distinction between medicine and poison, so the younger brother specially brought this corpse over and asked Brother Cheng for advice. “ Cheng Muyou squatted down beside him, picked up the human bone with two fingers, and as Liu Xuzhu said, this bone was covered with long and short lead and tin wires, which was obviously caused by poisoning.
He pondered for a while, "Brother Xian, you just said that there were traces of the alchemy furnace in the Changle Palace?"
” "Yes, but the stove is gone, as if it has been removed."
Cheng Muyou showed a shallow and cold smile on his face, "Brother Xian, have you ever thought that this murderer may not have intentionally killed people, but inadvertently caused the tragic death of these people." “ "Unintentionally?"
"Brother Xian, do you know how Li Sheng, the ancestor of the Southern Tang Dynasty, died?
In his later years, he advocated Taoism, but due to poisoning by taking pills, his personality became irritable and irritable.
In February of the 7th year of Shengyuan, Li Yu developed sores on his back, and soon his condition deteriorated, and he died on the 22nd of the same month at the age of 56. ” Liu Xujiao suddenly realized, "I understand, these people all took pills and died of poisoning." ” "That's right, people in the world don't understand the golden pill and all the stone medicines, each has its own nature, and there is a great poison in it, so the cases of death caused by the pill are not uncommon from ancient times to the present."
Liu Xuzhu clenched his fists, "So these people all died of pill poisoning?"
Who, then, hid their bodies in the grave?
“ "It's up to the virtuous brother to find out carefully," he frowned slightly, "Coincidentally, Xin'an Mansion has just received a report, and it is also related to the same Taoist temple, but this is far from Kuizhou, so the two cases should not be related." ” Jiang Xixi and Liu Xuzhi walked slowly in the mountains, the snow had not yet melted, some of them were frozen into ice, and it was a slip when they stepped on it, and the two of them did not take the mountain road, but crawled on the slope without steps, which made their progress more difficult.
"Miss Jiang, since someone reported the case, why don't you just ask the viewer, but you want to go to the mountains to search first?"
"If Qin Ding's death is really related to the Sansu Concept, wouldn't it be a surprise for me to ask so directly?
So while they were defenseless, I came to find out if there were any clues, and I thought, if they really kill people and abandon corpses, this mountain is the best place to hide corpses. ” "The girl is right."
Jiang Xixi raised her eyebrows, "Lord Liu, why don't you bring a few more people over and come to investigate in person?"
” "I thought of going to a place with the girl, the Kuizhou incident happened, the murderer didn't know, if the three Su Guan really had something to do with the Kuizhou incident, I rashly brought a bunch of people over, wouldn't it make him suspicious," he smiled, "I have the same idea as Lord Cheng, these two places are far apart, and there should be no connection between the two cases, just for a peace of mind, I made a special trip with the girl, and after a while, the girl said that I was an accompanying officer, don't reveal my identity." ” Jiang Xixi nodded, "Lord Liu, this mountain doesn't look big, and it takes a lot of effort to actually survey, so let's divide our soldiers into two ways, you check the south, I check the north, and gather at the gate of Sansu Temple in a while."
Seeing this, Liu Xujiao shouted "take care" behind him, and walked towards the other side, the crow cries above his head, hoarse, arrogant, Liu Xujiao suddenly felt an inexplicable panic, he looked back at Jiang Xixi, and saw that her figure had disappeared behind a dirt slope, and the feeling in his heart became more and more intense.