I go to the ancient imperial examinations

Chapter 127 Confess the truth
Prince Yu is impatient, he didn't bother to wait, and strode in.

Because the yard was already deserted, the roof was leaking sunlight, the doors and windows were crumbling, and in addition to the outdated cabinets and beds, there were some piles of sundries in the house.

Zhang Zhifu, Tong Tongzhi and others were at the back. They all looked inside and out of the house, and they really didn't find a place to hide the corpse. Could there be a secret room?
Liu Jian checked the three main rooms and the two side rooms on the left and right. Standing under the shade of a tree and looking at the courtyard, the body must not be buried in the ground, otherwise the Forbidden Dragon Guard would have found it long ago.

"Lord Yin, forgive me for my lack of eyesight, but you keep saying that someone was killed in the other courtyard where I was temporarily staying, but you have searched the place inside and out several times, and don't know where the body is hidden?" Questioning voices sounded, and Liu Jian provoked He looked at Yin Wuyan fiercely, the Commander of the Forbidden Dragon Guard is young, but he likes to play tricks!

Chong Guang and several subordinates of the Forbidden Dragon Guard glanced at the proud Liu Jian, the admiration in their hearts was like a surging river, Master Liu is a true warrior!
Yin Wuyan looked at the several rooms in front of him, and said in a cold voice: "Tear down the rooms."

"Yes." Chong Guang replied loudly, since the body can't be found, let's take a drastic action, of course, the premise is that the fat girl is right and the body must be hidden here.

Accompanied by bursts of dust, the dismantled houses were extremely easy to dismantle, and with a bang, a wall collapsed.

"Stand farther away, don't worry." Gu Qingzhou took Zhan Feiyu's hand and took several steps back. Since Wu Yan was sure that the corpse was hidden in this yard, it was only a matter of time before he found it.

Looking at the collapsed wall, Zhan Feiyu suddenly felt that he was a little adventurous. What if Liu Butler's previous panic was just pretending?

It was the first time that Zhan Feiyu regretted that he acted so recklessly. If it was private, it wouldn't matter, even if he couldn't find the body. But now, under the eyes of everyone, if his deduction is wrong, his big brother will be implicated by himself.

Gu Qingzhou looked at the young disciple with an ugly face in surprise, "What's wrong?"

Looking up, Zhan Feiyu's voice was full of remorse and uneasiness, "Teacher, I told my elder brother that the body was hidden here."

"What?" Gu Qingzhou was stunned, and looked up at Yin Wuyan who was standing not far away. How could he believe Xiaoyu's words so much?
Gu Qingzhou suddenly didn't know what to say when he thought that the Dragon Guards had already turned the whole courtyard upside down and couldn't find the body, but Yin Wuyan mobilized the crowd to demolish the courtyard because of Zhan Feiyu's words.
"Even if you can't find the corpse, you can at least get a copy by Liu Jian and be reprimanded by the sage." Looking at the young disciple who was frowning and full of remorse, Gu Qingzhou touched her head, "I'm usually very smart, how come this You'd be stupid, but judging by the importance His Majesty attaches to Wu Yan, you know it's just a trivial matter."

"found it!"

Hearing Chongguang's voice, Zhan Feiyu's eyes lit up. If Gu Qingzhou hadn't stopped her, she would have rushed into the yard to look at the corpse.

bang!A thick beam was thrown onto the open space by Chongguang, before everyone in the courtyard could understand it, they saw the Yanling knife in Chongguang's hand slashing down towards the beam.

"This?" Seeing a corpse exposed from the broken beam, everyone's expressions became weird and ugly. Who would have thought of hollowing out the wooden beam and stuffing a human leg into it.

Several beams from the five houses were moved to the yard, and soon, a divided corpse was slowly pieced together again.

"Ouch..." Liu Jian was a civil servant after all, he knew that Zhou Wenquan had been killed, but after witnessing the tragic state of the corpse, he couldn't help retching, the scene was too horrifying.

Shigemitsu squatted down and checked quickly, "My lord, the body was drained of blood first, then divided into seven parts by a sharp knife, and then stuffed into the hollowed out beams."

The legs and arms were severed, the torso was too large so it was split in half, and finally the severed head.

"My lord, the corpse seems to have been pickled with salt." Rao Shigemitsu was so courageous, he also felt like vomiting inside at this moment.

First, the blood in the whole body was radiated, so that the body would not be worried about blood splashing, and it was pickled with a lot of salt. It is estimated that the sun has been shining in the past few days, and the divided body was also exposed to the sun, so as to prevent the body from rotting. It stinks.

The yard was already in disrepair, and the beams were rotten, so it was not difficult to hollow out the interior. After stuffing the divided corpses in, the beams were bound and fixed with thin copper wires to prevent the beams from breaking.

But because the Forbidden Dragon Guard wanted to check the corpses, even if Chongguang and the others came in before, they only took a look at the roof, and no one would notice that there was an extra piece of copper wire on the beam. Even if they saw it, the first reaction would be It's just left over from the renovation of the house.

"Master Liu, the housekeeper of your house used to be a carpenter?" Chong Guang looked at the pale Liu Jian with a smile. If he wasn't a skilled carpenter, he probably wouldn't be able to see even a trace of the beam's camouflage.

The corpse was found, but the pulp of the right hand was cut off by a sharp knife, ensuring that even if the corpse was found, no fingerprints could be extracted.

"Could it be that Steward Liu killed Wenquan?" Liu Jian's face was full of shock, and his body couldn't bear it, he took a few steps back, his old wrinkled face was full of pain, "How could Steward Liu kill someone? The official really didn't expect that everything will be investigated by the Forbidden Dragon Guard!"

Zhan Feiyu stared dumbfounded at Liu Jian, who had a changeable expression. When he found the body, his face was pale as if he had lost his way, but he wiped it all away in a short while. Those who didn't know really thought that Mr. Liu was innocent.

"Master Liu has been an official for more than 30 years. If he doesn't even have this ability, can he secure the position of a second-rank official?" Gu Qingzhou smiled and looked at the silly little disciple, he was really too young.

Zhan Feiyu found that she made the same mistakes that many time travelers would make. She thought she was smart and underestimated the ancients, but apart from not knowing the modern knowledge, no one was smarter than the other.

"Teacher, I know I'm wrong." Zhan Feiyu smiled bitterly, and said that the movable-type printing and salt-making recipes he took out, if the Holy Majesty was not a wise king, and if the teacher and big brother hadn't covered him up, what would happen to him? He might have been locked up in secret.

Looking at the disappointed little disciple, his black pupils lost all their brilliance, Gu Qingzhou laughed, "Knowing your mistakes can make a big difference, not to mention that with the teacher around, you can bear the big mistakes."

Sitting in the carriage, Zhan Feiyu still hung his head, exuding a gloomy aura.

The carriage stopped suddenly. Seeing Yin Wuyan who opened the curtain and came in, Zhan Feiyu froze for a moment, and said in a weak voice, "Big brother."

Yin Wuyan responded, and sat down beside him.

It wasn't until he left the official road and turned on the dirt road back to Jinlin Village that Yin Wuyan asked the carriage to stop under the shade of a tree.

Zhan Feiyu, who had been silent all the way, raised his head, like an old eggplant beaten by frost, "Big Brother, do you have anything you want to ask me?"

Yin Wuyan lifted the curtain of the carriage, and the wind blowing in took away the heat in the carriage, "How do you plan to justify yourself?"

Glancing at Yin Wuyan's handsome and cold face like white jade, Zhan Feiyu raised his head and lowered his head again, "I am open to Zhizao. When I was three years old, I met a strange old man on the mountain behind the village. He I live in the mountains, but no one in the village has seen him, he taught me a lot of things, I couldn’t understand them when I was young, but I have a good memory, so I always remember.”

Zhan Feiyu recovered the memories of her previous life when she was a toddler. In order to justify herself, she also asked the old man Zhan and the uncles and aunts in the village. No one had ever seen any strange old man. Dao may be people from other villages who were met by her when they went to the mountains.

When he was young, Zhan Feiyu would occasionally speak surprisingly, recite a poem or sing a folk song he hadn’t heard before, when asked by villagers, Zhan Feiyu would answer in a childish voice, “When I went to the mountain to cut pigweed Grandpa taught it."

"So you found yourself an unfounded teacher?" Yin Wuyan looked at the nodding little girl, a smile flashed in her long and narrow phoenix eyes, there were many capable people in the Daqing Dynasty, and the little girl's reason was quite reasonable.

Even if someone went to Jinlin Village to investigate, someone with a good memory would definitely remember that Zhan Feiyu did meet a strange old man in the mountains when he was young.

But it is indeed taught that after every household in Jinlin Village hatches chickens, the children in the family will dig earthworms, chop them up and mix them with vegetable leaves to feed the chickens, so that the survival rate of the chickens will be higher, and some villagers even make it specially. A wooden box is piled with rotten vegetables and leaves to raise earthworms and feed the chickens. This method is what Zhan Feiyu said. Of course, it is the strange old man in the mountain who really taught it.

Yin Wuyan knew that the little girl had a secret, and if she didn't tell him, he wouldn't ask. On the contrary, Yin Wuyan would deal with her aftermath and erase all traces.

Just like today, even if the Holy Majesty personally investigates, it is only as if the Forbidden Dragon Guard found clues and discovered Zhou Wenquan's body.

It's just that the little girl was going to confess, and Yin Wuyan didn't stop her. Looking at her drooping head, she became in a better mood, "What's going on today? Steward Liu has been yelling about something wrong."

Zhan Feiyu raised her head, and her eyes fell on his handsome but young face. When she thought of what she called Yin Wuyan, and the occasional coquettish and rascal, her sense of shame instantly soared. Auntie...

"Big brother, don't be afraid for a while." After making up his mind to "confess", Zhan Feiyu grinned, his dark eyes gleaming with mischievous light, "Big brother, take care."

The moment the voice fell, Zhan Feiyu's figure disappeared instantly.

Rao Yin Wuyan has always been expressionless and indifferent, but this time he also showed surprise, and stretched his right hand towards Zhan Feiyu's position just now, but it was empty.

After a long while, Zhan Feiyu's figure appeared in front of Yin Wuyan again, his chubby smiling face was full of complacency, "Big brother, I can be invisible, and the things I carry can also be invisible together."

Butler Liu dared to kill and dismember his body, but in the end he was frightened and shouted that there was a ghost, and it was indeed due to Zhan Feiyu's golden finger.

The tense body relaxed, Yin Wuyan held Zhan Feiyu's hand, digesting the meaning of what she said just now, the little girl can disappear invisible?

Sitting obediently beside Yin Wuyan, Zhan Feiyu grinned and explained: "Last year, I could only be invisible for half an hour. This year, I am one year older, and I can actually be invisible for an hour."

Moreover, after Zhan Feiyu disappeared, it was more like entering another dimension. She could see everything outside, but people outside could not feel her existence, nor could she hear her breathing.

Yin Wuyan didn't let go of Zhan Feiyu's hand, and suddenly understood what he couldn't figure out before, "You used this method to sneak attack Mr. Yumian."

At the beginning, Yin Wuyan was the jade-faced gentleman who really didn't understand how the little girl was murderous. He was able to escape from the pursuit of the forbidden dragon guards. One can imagine the ability of the jade-faced gentleman. The girl was killed.

And that time at Zeng's house in Baofeng Buzhuang, she was able to steal the poisonous tea out without anyone noticing, including this time she pretended to scare Butler Liu so badly that she showed her flaws.

Nodding like a chicken chasing rice, Zhan Feiyu said the golden finger, and Zhan Feiyu felt relieved, "It will be useful to me in the future, just speak up!"

The word "big brother" is really too shameful!No matter how thick-skinned Zhan Feiyu was, he wouldn't be able to shout at this meeting.

"You can't say this to another person, including Scholar Gu!" Yin Wuyan knew what she wanted to say when he saw Zhan Feiyu's expression. Even though he trusted Scholar Gu, Yin Wuyan didn't dare to take Zhan Feiyu's risk.

Although Gu Qingzhou has cut off contact with the boss of the Nanling Gu family in recent years, they are Gu Qingzhou's family members connected by blood, and they are his close relatives. People's hearts are changeable, and Yin Wuyan doesn't want to test it.

Zhan Feiyu didn't intend to take the initiative to say it, but if the teacher asked, after all, she thought she was good at disguising, but it was a loophole in her body, but the teacher didn't ask.

"Be obedient, push me if there is anything inconvenient to say." Yin Wuyan sullenly looked at Zhan Feiyu seriously with his dark phoenix eyes, and had to wait for her affirmative answer.

After hesitating for a while, Zhan Feiyu nodded, "I remember."

"You can't hide easily in the future, unless you are in danger." Yin Wuyan confessed again, the little girl is quite courageous, but she is smart, and people in the world are not stupid, once she makes a mistake, the consequences will be disastrous!

"Yeah." Zhan Feiyu nodded again, "I will be cautious in my words and deeds."

A few days later, the skeleton of a person who had been dead for four years was secretly placed in a cave among the rocky walls deep in the mountains of Jinlin Village.

The location of the cave is hidden. It is located on the side of the cliff. There are vines hanging down from the branches on the top of the cliff. From the top of the mountain, the cave cannot be seen at all. Even if someone is at the bottom of the mountain, it is difficult to find the cave because of the cover of the vines.

In addition to the thick bones, there were some tattered clothes, some simple daily necessities, some moldy ancient books that were hard to find outside, and even a few priceless authentic calligraphy and paintings in the cave.

Of course, in addition to this, there is also a small box in the cave, which contains some broken silver and jewelry, which have been damp due to improper storage.

(End of this chapter)