The duke of the governor's family is leaving again

Chapter 325
When Yuan Jie pointed to the people in the line and guessed why Lan Gu came here, Chen Yuan followed his interest and guessed along with him.

Coincidentally, she happened to see the gray-haired woman walking into the house with a girl in a cloak.

In just one cup of tea, the girl was not only dead, but also completely cold.

This unscientific!

Unless the woman who just came in is a dead body.

The woman supported the dead body skillfully, pretended to talk to the dead body during the queue, entered the black room in line, and put it in a prostration posture.

Or the woman helped a living person who was dressed similarly to a dead body to come in, and then moved out the dead body hidden in this dark room to replace it.

Finally, when the woman caused a commotion and attracted everyone's attention, the man who had followed her into the dark room took advantage of the confusion and ran into the crowd.

These two possibilities flashed through Chen Yuan's mind in an instant.

However, she needs evidence to prove her guess.

Both of these possibilities face a huge problem.

Please Langu, it is not a seance in a confined space.

Baimashan's Langu is not closed.

Even though the inside of the house is relatively dark, almost every woman queuing up outside has a colorful lantern.

Even if there is red silk in the room to block the view, people outside the room cannot be so blind that they cannot see the big movements in the room.

It is precisely because the movements of the people in the house can be seen that the people lining up outside the house can sing along.

"This is Chen Yuzuo, a newcomer to the government office. Of course she can do an autopsy. I'm a government servant. How can I let dubious people touch the corpse!?"

Yuan Jie blocked the crowd who wanted to enter the house, and it was very difficult to talk about it.

"We don't know how much tax we have paid to the county government for making porcelain in Baima Mountain. Why did we assign a maid to take charge of the case?"

"I saw it. This woman is still in line just now. She also wants to ask Lan Gu to ask God, how dare she test the sinner that Lan Gu wants to kill, and can she still cure Lan Gu?!"

"Let her out quickly so that she doesn't desecrate Lan Gu. Have a good Mid-Autumn Festival, but you can't die anymore..."

In ancient times, women were very harsh. Chen Yuan had long been used to these criticisms, and she concentrated on examining the corpse.

The muttering in the crowd was quickly broken by an urgent and panicked call.

"A dead person, another dead person, another dead person at the burning tower!"

The woman who was still talking sarcasticly just now was so frightened that she almost bit her tongue, and the word "human" was drowned out in her cries of pain.

Her legs gave way, if it wasn't for the support of the sisters who came with her, she would have fallen to the ground in a disgraceful manner.

With a panicked face, she brushed away her sister's hands, put her palms together and faced the room where Chen Yuan was standing, knelt down with a plop, and began to bow down.

In two or three strokes, the pure white forehead turned red.

"Gu Lan, spare your life, Gu Lan, please spare your life! Gu Lan, don't blame the believer girl for talking nonsense, please protect the family of Ruan, the believer girl."

Started with her.

The rest of the people, old and young, who came to invite Lan Gu also knelt on the ground, kowtowing their heads to hope that the gods would appease their anger.

Chen Yuan came from a later life and did not have such a strong belief in gods.

Standing alone in front of a group of people kneeling on the ground is very unique.

She felt something was wrong, even if she didn't kneel down, she shouldn't have stood in front of them prostrating, and was about to move to the side, when A Ruan who raised her head caught her.

Ah Ruan, whose forehead was already swollen, pointed at Chen Yuan, "Why are you still standing, come out quickly!"

Chen Yuan, who was planning to come out, sighed in her heart. Of course, she had to respect the beliefs of these townspeople and didn't want to cause trouble.

However, A Ruan, with panic in his eyes, did not intend to let it go, "It's all your fault, if it wasn't for your autopsy, which disturbed Langu, how could there be deaths at the burning tower, it was all caused by you, a disrespectful woman! "

The rest of the people raised their heads one after another, "Yes, yes, that girl must have disrespected the gods when she invited the gods, and she was punished by the gods to die. It's ridiculous that this work still wants to do an autopsy. Isn't that questioning the authority of the gods!"

"It was found out that Langu's divine punishment killed someone, and this female widow can still punish Langu's crime? How dare a mere mortal dare to overestimate himself in front of the gods."

"Gu Lan! If you want to blame it, blame the maid who disturbed your peace!"

Seeing that the public opinion was going wrong, Yuan Jie walked up to the motionless Chen Yuan, "Chen Yuzuo, get scared, the belief in ghosts and gods is flourishing here in Lingnan, you go back to the inn to hide, and let me deal with it here."

"Okay, you guard the corpse."

Chen Yuan accepted the other party's kindness, and she didn't know whether someone deliberately took the rhythm at this moment, or because of fear of ghosts and gods, Naa Ruan pushed her out in an attempt to extinguish the anger of the gods.

No matter what the reason is, it is not a good choice for her to stay here.

No one knows the importance of Chen Yuan better than Yuan Jie, something happened to this girl, he has to raise his head to see the magistrate!

He took two steps forward, blocked Chen Yuan behind him, raised his arms and shouted.

"Gods above, please appease your anger. All the believers kneel down three times and kowtow nine times. I only hope that you will forgive the disrespect of the believers!"

Shouting here, Yuan Jie knelt down on the ground, not forgetting to shout the slogan, "One kowtow, Lan Gu is merciful and forgives, and bestows happiness and well-being on the believers!"

When he yelled and kowtowed like this, all the people who admired Langu hurriedly kowtowed and shouted slogans.

Originally, the women queuing up outside this room were all here to ask the gods to ask Lan Gu, and they all knelt and kowtowed along Yuan Jie's slogan, who had the time to pay attention to Chen Yuan.

Even if Ah Ruan was staring at Chen Yuan, she didn't dare to interrupt everyone's ceremony when she needed to shout slogans.

He could only watch helplessly as the maid lifted up her robe indistinctly, and ran around the back of the room without a trace.

She gritted her silver teeth with hatred.

Chen Yuan, who had never encountered such a situation before, would be lying if she said she was not afraid.

The ancients were superstitious, the rhythmic person blamed the dead on her, saying that it was caused by her disrespect to the gods, and more and more people would follow suit.

If another idiot proposes to burn her to death to appease the gods, wouldn't she die unjustly?

Fortunately, Yuan Jie is smart, so I must treat him to a good meal another day.

She didn't go back to the inn directly, but asked passers-by, and found the place where the pagoda was burned.

Leaving the crowded night market, you can see the fiery red sky far away, so you don't need to keep asking for directions.

On the flattened dry fields outside the town, more than 30 towers of various sizes were built.

Some towers are as tall as a five-year-old child, others as tall as a man, and the tallest one is as tall as a two-story building.

The circular bases of these towers are made of earth bricks mixed with red bricks, and the tops are all piled up with tiles in a hollow shape.

There is a fire door in the base to put firewood in.

At this moment, the firewood has been lit, and it is burning very vigorously, and it can illuminate the surroundings without a torch.

At this moment, the temperature was so high that the tiles were as fiery red and transparent as a soldering iron. Hot tongues of flame rushed out from the gaps in the tiles, and some flames even jumped higher than the spire.

The people who were supposed to be singing and frolicking around the burning tower were now tense and frightened into a pile, standing in a dimly lit place.

Chen Yuan squeezed in.

A smell of scorched fire bricks with water vapor rushed over.

Just now, these people must have brought water to extinguish the burning tower.

When she squeezed to the front row, she realized that she couldn't see the tower just now, not because it was shorter than a person, but because the burning tower had been pulled down.

(End of this chapter)