My martial arts rely on solving cases

Chapter 88 The Cruel Murderer
"My lord!" Zhan Zhao came to Su Qing and got off his horse immediately, "My lord, a homicide has occurred."

"Really?" Su Qing suddenly asked with bright eyes, and instantly realized something was wrong, and quickly coughed lightly, "I mean, it's a pity, where is it?"

"A female corpse appeared in the Town God's Temple in the southern suburbs. It was made into human wax and lit as a sky lantern. Xue Chonglou has already taken his brothers there."

"Okay, I'll go now." Su Qing directly took the horse Zhan Zhao rode, and got on the horse, "Come after you send Xiaoya and the others back to the Yamen."

After speaking, he turned around and rode away.

"It's been a long time since I saw you so energetic." Qiaodie looked at Su Qing who was going away, and said quietly.

"Yeah, since the door of bliss was broken half a year ago, my lord has been listless. Even fishing and painting are absent-minded. Although there is no abnormality in front of us, I can feel that you are lonely."

Su Qing hurriedly rushed to the Town God's Temple, and at this moment the periphery of the Town God's Temple was full of people.At the entrance of Chenghuang Temple, the yamen pulled out the isolation belt with cloth strips.

Su Qing got off her horse and went straight to the Town God's Temple.

The enshrinement hall is a little dark, and the candles are burning with smoke, which makes the enshrinement hall appear to be surrounded by green mist and not like the world.

A group of arresting officers were holding torches and searching inch by inch. Xue Chonglou was on the side talking to a middle-aged lady.

"Chonglou." Su Qing strode forward and called.

Xue Chonglou hurriedly brought the lady over, "Mrs. Yu, this is our Lord Su."

"The girl has seen adults."

"Chonglou, what's the situation?"

"A young woman was turned into a sky lantern. This lady was the first to discover it and sent someone to report it in the morning."

Hearing this, Su Qing came to the woman who had been lit with a sky lantern.

"Om-"

There was a sudden tremor in my mind, and the case record automatically popped up and came to my mind.

"It is found that blue can accept the case, is it included?"

Finally got a blue case file, it was too difficult.

I don't know if it's because the red cases have been included, but the taste of the collection has changed.At the beginning, white cases could be included in the collection, but in the past six months, no white case has been included successfully.

Even if it's a homicide case like a fight to death, it's still useless.

Don't you see, Lord Su hasn't opened for half a year.

"Recorded!"

The case record is automatically opened to the latest page.

"Case file twenty, the woman who was lit with a sky lantern. Case level, blue."

After finishing recording, Su Qing looked at the woman in front of her again.The woman was kneeling, with her head up, and her mouth was wide open. A piece of gray wax protruded from her mouth. The candle had traces of being burned, and it had been extinguished at this moment.

If the candle is removed, the posture of the woman seems to be shouting to the sky.

The woman was wearing bright red clothes, which were very bright, and her face was painted with rouge and gouache, making the woman look like a stranger.

"Judging from the burning of the candle and the accumulation of dripping wax, it has been burned for a long time, at least five hours. It can be inferred that she should have been moved here last night."

"What about the identity of the deceased?"

"Still investigating."

"Any other clues?"

"The door of the worship hall was not locked last night. The gatekeeper's surname Qin is in charge. According to Uncle Qin's dictation, it was fine when the door was closed last night. However, it does not rule out that his old eyes were dim and he didn't see clearly."

"It must be that I didn't see clearly." Madam Yu said at this time, "Not to mention he is an old man, but I didn't see clearly at first. I didn't see clearly until I got to the innermost side and lifted the curtain."

"Go and ask if there is any suspicious person who came here yesterday. He should have a big box and a big package with him."

"Yes!"

The busy work was not finished until the afternoon when the sun was about to set. Su Qing returned to the Yamen with a group of arresting officers.

After returning to the yamen, Su Qing immediately handed over the body to the coroner's office. Because there were no other useful clues for the time being, Su Qing simply waited in the coroner's room.

"The age of the deceased should be seventeen or eighteen years old. The cause of death is unknown. The body has been specially treated, so it is impossible to determine the time of death. The internal organs in the abdominal cavity were hollowed out, and forty catties of wax was poured into it to make a sky lantern.

My lord, this subordinate has been in this profession for twenty years. He has seen and heard thousands of bizarre cases, but he has never seen such a corpse, nor heard of such a mad murderer.

Killing people is nothing more than nodding to the ground, and making sky lanterns after killing people, the murderer may have a sworn hatred with the deceased.But she is just a young girl, how could she form such a deep hatred with others? "

"It may not be personal hatred, maybe it is from the older generation?"

"My lord, the identity of the deceased has been found." At this moment, Xue Chonglou strode over.

"My lord, the name of the deceased is Yang Xiaolan. He is eighteen years old and a student of Qingle Academy."

Qingle Academy was established and operated just last year. The academy is divided into women's and men's subjects. Men's subjects study the Four Books and Five Classics, Six Studies and Six Arts, while women's subjects study piano, chess, calligraphy, painting, poetry and poetry.

The literary style of Dayu Country is very prosperous, and there are three lines of culture to suppress the literary style. Even a woodcutter in the mountains may chant a few lines when chopping firewood.But even if the style of writing is so prosperous, there are still very few women who study, let alone those who study in academies.

"A student? How could he be murdered and treated like this?"

"The father of the deceased is also here, did your lord see him?"

"it is good!"

Su Qing came out of the autopsy hall and came to the inner courtyard. There was a bleak figure standing in the inner courtyard at this moment.In the afterglow of the setting sun, the man's bent back was like the afterglow that was about to pass away.

Seeing Su Qing approaching, the old man fell to his knees with tears streaming down his face.

"My lord—what's the matter with my daughter? They say my daughter was murdered? Is it true?"

Seeing the old man in front of her, Su Qing's expression was slightly astonished.

In my imagination, Yang Xiaolan's family background should be very good, otherwise, why would she be willing to send a girl to study in an academy?How expensive is reading?
What's the use of studying if women can't take the imperial examination if they study?Besides, even if it is reading, where is it not reading?Why go to this kind of aristocratic academy to study?

But he didn't expect Yang Xiaolan's father to be the wrinkled, stooped, old man with patches all over his body.

Hearing the weeping question of the old man in front of her, Su Qing's heart was pulled for no reason.But he couldn't bear to lie to him, so he just sighed helplessly.

"Do you have any enemies in your family? Or is your daughter having trouble with someone?"

"My daughter was really murdered? Ah—————"

Immediately, the old man collapsed to the ground and burst into tears.

Su Qing frowned slightly, and wanted to interrupt several times.

"Yang Lao Si, now is not the time for mourning, my adults are asking you something." Xue Chonglou shouted coldly.

"My lord, I am an honest and responsible person, so I don't have any enemies. My daughter is a scholar, and she usually speaks softly when talking to others, so how can I have any enemies?
My lord, what is this all about?How did my daughter die? "

"Yang Laosi, what do you do?"

"The villain is a shopkeeper, selling groceries in the streets."

"A peddler, you provide your daughter to study at Qingle Academy?"

"I'm just such a girl, that's my baby bump. She loves to read, and if she wants to go to the academy, I have to pay her to go even if I sell everything."

"Why is this?"

"My daughter is gone, and I'm not afraid that adults will look down on me if I tell it. I just hope that my daughter can marry a good man in the future. But I'm just a salesman, and if I rely on a matchmaker to make a match, my daughter will definitely not be able to marry a good man.

I heard that there are many children of high-ranking officials and dignitaries in Qingle Academy, so I thought that my daughter would find marriage in it.But who would have thought...it's only been less than a year..."

(End of this chapter)