Holy Bone

Chapter 1546: Taoist Jin'an, what do you think about the death of old King Ling?

Criminal Investigation Department.

Document library.

A question has always been lingering in Jin An's mind. The outside world has always said that the martial arts immortal wanted to protect a woman who should not be protected, which violated human ethics and incurred public outrage, so he was besieged by Shinto masters all over the world.

If the late emperor was a martial arts immortal, then the woman he wanted to protect was the empress.

How did the queen get sick and die?

  Why is it said that the late emperor's protection of the empress was against human ethics and incurred public outrage?

Jin'an read through almost all the case files in the capital during the reign of the late emperor, and found very few clues about the late emperor and the empress in these files.

If you think about it carefully, it makes sense.

The royal files are not under the jurisdiction of the Criminal Investigation Department, and the Criminal Investigation Department has no right to manage them. If you want to trace the royal files, you have to go to the Censorate.

However, given the relationship between the Criminal Investigation Department and the Censorate, it is almost impossible to obtain the relevant files.

The most important thing is that he can no longer hide his investigation of the late emperor and the martial arts immortal.

In the investigation files that he and his clone had worked on day and night, they only found a brief description of the former queen.

In the ninth year of the Qingkang period, a group of fellow apprentice brothers rushed to Shenzhou to save a child who fell into the water, and delayed the auspicious day for Shenzhou's departure. The Empress Dowager was kind to the people and set an example for the world. Instead of blaming them, she gave them the name "Zhongyong", which became a famous story.

The Qingkang Year was the reign title of the previous emperor, Emperor Kangheng.

The word "queen" means queen.

Shenzhou?

Set sail?

Jin'an wanted to find out the clues about where Shenzhou set sail in the ninth year of Qingkang, and where the final destination was that the Queen personally led the team to sail this time, but to no avail.

Fortunately, hard work pays off, and his diligent investigation led him to find another important clue.

More than ten years ago, the Criminal Investigation Department caught a group of tomb robbers. In order to reduce his sins, one of the tomb robbers said that his companions went down the tunnel to look for an official tomb. When he was on guard outside the tunnel, he saw several young eunuchs dressed in palace eunuch uniforms sneaking into Gui'e Mountain in the middle of the night and not leaving Gui'e Mountain until dawn. He wanted to report that those young eunuchs from the Palace of Eunuchs were also tomb robbers in order to get lenient treatment.

The Criminal Investigation Department did not take the matter seriously. They just thought that the tomb robbers made up a lie to delay their death. Moreover, the Criminal Investigation Department was weak at that time. Without solid evidence, they did not dare to track down the people from the Ministry of Internal Affairs. They sentenced all the tomb robbers to death and took them to Caishikou to be beheaded.

If they had not learned the inside story from Deputy Eunuch Wei, most people would have ignored this file record. The slander of a few dying thieves should not be taken seriously and is nothing more than a delaying tactic.

But Jin An was someone who knew the inside story, and he came to the case library specifically for this matter to look through the files and investigate for clues. This confession in the file immediately caught his attention.

Gui'e Mountain was called Li Mountain in the past. It is a famous Feng Shui site where officials from several dynasties are buried. It is said that there is an imperial tomb buried at the bottom of Li Mountain.

Mount Li is home to the tombs of officials from several dynasties. Because of its heavy negative energy and the fact that it had been excavated during several wars, strange things happened frequently, so the mountain was later renamed Dahei Mountain.

As Dahei Mountain became a mass grave, it was renamed Guimo Mountain.

A Feng Shui treasure cave has since turned into a Feng Shui inauspicious place. Strange things happen every night. Except for tomb robbers who deal with the dead, no living person dares to enter the mountain at night.

Fatty Li mentioned that the late emperor's family died suddenly of illness, which was considered an ominous sign by the royal family. They could not enter the imperial mausoleum and were buried in a mass grave outside the palace.

If this is true, then the several clues he has in his hands all match up.

Mass grave at Ghost Moth Mountain.

The young eunuch from the Ministry of Internal Affairs went into the mountains to dispose of the body.

  Many years later, Deputy Eunuch Wei asked a bone collector to go to Gui'e Mountain to collect bones. The mountain adjacent to Gui'e Mountain is Feihe Mountain, which is the ancestral land where the Zunyi Palace buried the clansmen. What role did the Zunyi Palace play in this matter?

Why did Deputy Eunuch Wei set his sights on Feihe Mountain and Prince Zunyi's Palace?

The most important point is that he has not yet found out who ordered Vice Eunuch Wei to do this. Was it the Empress? Emperor Kang Zhao? Or someone else?

The Queen, the Shenzhou voyage, the little princess, and the mass grave of Guimo Mountain, these were the clues he had finally found after flipping through the files for ten days without eating or sleeping.

Very little of the truth came out back then.

There are almost no written records.

The records about the late emperor's family during the past ten years have become a historical blank.

Jin An sorted out the files and let out a breath. He knew that no results could be found in the case library and it was meaningless to stay any longer. He had already been in the case library for half a month and there were many things outside and official business of the Criminal Investigation Department that needed his attention, so he decided to stop the investigation here first.

Jin An raised his hand, took back all the lead and mercury holy pills, and then returned to the ground.

The old Taoist priest was no longer in the Criminal Investigation Department. He was still in the Wuzang Taoist Temple, boiling the liver and refining detoxification pills.

Jin'an arrived at the main hall of the Criminal Investigation Department and happened to meet Deputy Commander Cai, who had just finished his night shift and was walking a Feng Shui turtle on a rope. The old dog with a big butt was riding on the back of the Feng Shui turtle of the Criminal Investigation Department, letting the big flower turtle carry it, looking calm and relaxed.

Jin An kicked the old dog down and scolded him with a smile: "You old dog really don't know what's good for you. You put our Feng Shui turtle of the Criminal Investigation Department under your buttocks. Do you want to go to heaven?"

"Deputy Commander Cai, why don't you stop this old dog and let him do whatever he wants?"

When Deputy Commander Cai saw Jinan coming out, he showed joy in his eyes, but when he heard the second half of Jinan's words, he showed a helpless expression.

The Feng Shui turtle was brought by Jinan.

The old dog was also brought by Jinan.

He is like a husband caught between his mother-in-law and his daughter-in-law, being neither of them can help him.

"When I'm not in the Criminal Investigation Department, don't let this old dog have too much free time. This old dog is now also a criminal dog. Taking it out to handle cases will greatly increase efficiency and reduce the burden on the brothers."

"The food in my Wuzang Taoist Temple is not eaten for free. My Wuzang Taoist Temple does not support idle people." Jin An kicked the old dog lightly again.

This old dog is so shameless. Even after being kicked by Jin'an, he still clings to Jin'an and can't be driven away.

Next, Jin'an asked Deputy Commander Cai about the recent situation in the capital.

When Deputy Commander Cai placed several piles of books in front of Jin'an, Jin'an learned about the dispute between northern and southern booksellers in the capital, and he became famous again.

Jin An looked through those strange stories about solving cases. Many of them were exaggerated, and many of the details of the cases were exaggerated and even he, the person involved, didn't know. He was stunned by what he saw.

"Have you heard that old Prince Ling is dead!" Fatty Li rushed into the Criminal Investigation Department in a hurry.

"what?"

"Master Jin'an, you have finally come out of seclusion!"

Fatty Li came running over with a happy face.

"Old Prince Ling is dead? What's going on with Captain Li?" Deputy Commander Cai asked in surprise.

Fatty Li replied solemnly: "This news just came out of the Tianshi Mansion. I was on duty patrolling the streets outside. When I first heard the news, I couldn't believe it. Old King Ling is a king of a different surname. The death of Old King Ling is no small matter! The first thing I did was to go to the Tianshi Mansion to verify it!"

"The Tianshi Mansion is currently hanging white silk and white paper lanterns. Old King Ling is indeed dead! I heard that Old King Ling never returned from the Taoist Huangting Inner Scenery Land, so the Tianshi Mansion sent people to track him down and found out that Old King Ling had fallen in the Taoist Huangting Inner Scenery Land!"

"This matter has just been spread. It won't be long before the whole city knows about it!"

"Master Jin'an, what do you think of the death of old King Ling?"