The Heavens Begin with Detective Di Renjie

Chapter 72 Proposed Cremation
After Li Yuanfang dealt with all the miscellaneous soldiers, Shen Youzhi walked out of the ruined temple leisurely.

Li Yuanfang looked at Xiaomei who fell unconscious on the ground, wanted to go up to check her injury, then looked at Shen Youzhi, and finally said: "Brother Shen, you should come and see her injury."

Shen Youzhi, who was supposed to cooperate with Xiaomei's performance, felt playful, glanced at Xiaomei on the ground, and said, "I guess she's dead, let's bury her!"

When watching the drama and watching this, Shen Youzhi once thought, what if Li Yuanfang didn't just leave, but buried Xiaomei who cheated to death?Even going a step further, what about opting for cremation?
But thinking about it carefully, I guess Xiaofeng is around here.

If they really wanted to cremate Xiaomei's body, she would probably create some accidents to divert their attention.

As soon as Shen Youzhi finished speaking, she saw Xiaomei's eyelids who had "passed out" suddenly move slightly, and she didn't know if it was a part of her own design, or if she was irritated by Shen Youzhi's words.

Seeing this, Li Yuanfang hurriedly said: "I still have a breath! Brother Shen, quickly help her up!"

Shen Youzhi had no choice but to squat down and help Xiaomei who was lying on the ground up.

Xiaomei slowly opened her eyes, and said intermittently: "Hurry up, rush back to Luo, Luoyang, Shan, Shan, Han, Han, Han..."

Before she finished speaking, her head tilted and her body sank.

"It's really dead this time."

Shen Youzhi began to cooperate with the performance and said.

"Ugh!"

Li Yuanfang let out a long sigh with a sad expression on his face.

They just got in touch with Xiaomei and persuaded her to leave the snake spirit. Unexpectedly, Xiaomei was poisoned by the snake spirit so soon.

"Brother Shen, what are you doing?"

Seeing Shen Youzhi put down Xiaomei's body and groping for something in the weeds beside him, Li Yuanfang couldn't help asking.

"The dead are the most important. Let's quickly find some firewood and cremate Xiaomei's body, lest her body be exposed to the wilderness."

Shen Youzhi replied while looking for dry firewood.

I don't know if it's an illusion, Shen Youzhi seemed to catch a glimpse of the "dead" Xiaomei, and after hearing his words, his fingers jumped slightly!
I don't know if she was scared or angry.

Fortunately, Li Yuanfang didn't notice anything unusual, but felt that what Shen Youzhi said made sense, so he joined the ranks of looking for firewood.

At this moment, there were sudden movements in the forest in the distance, as if a large group of people were rushing over here!
"Not good!" Li Yuanfang exclaimed, "It must be that the Snake Spirit Brigade has arrived!"

Shen Youzhi had had enough fun, he didn't want to disrupt Xiaomei's plan, so he couldn't follow his plan, so he pretended to regret and said: "It seems that I can't collect Miss Xiaomei's body."

Li Yuanfang also sighed regretfully, even with their skills, it was impossible to perform lightness kung fu with Xiaomei's body.

In desperation, the two could only use their lightness skills and flew away from this place of right and wrong.

On the way, Li Yuanfang asked about Xiaomei's last words "before she died".

Shen Youzhi didn't hide anything, and told the truth.

"Luoyang. Flash. Cold."

Li Yuanfang chewed these words repeatedly, but still couldn't figure out what they represented.

"Brother Shen, I'm sorry for you." He recalled Xiaomei's death again, and comforted him in a low voice.

If Ruyan knew about this, I don't know how sad it would be.

Li Yuanfang felt melancholy: Xiaomei was Ruyan's only friend in Snake Spirit, but I failed to protect her well.
In contrast, Shen Youzhi didn't have any regrets.

He clearly knew that Xiaomei was simply cheating her death, and she would show up again in the future.

"The dead are gone, so are the living." Shen Youzhi said, "We still need to rush back to Luoyang as soon as possible, and tell Duke Di what happened here!"

Hearing this, Li Yuanfang also put away his melancholy, and set off on the return journey with Shen Youzhi.

One month later, Di Fu
Li Yuanfang, who hurried back from Liuzhou, told Di Renjie and Ruyan everything that happened in Liuzhou, including the news of Xiaomei's death.

When Ruyan heard that Xiaomei had died in the hands of the snake spirit, she wept sadly, and murmured: "She saved my life, she is my only friend among the snake spirits."

Seeing her crying sadly, Li Yuanfang said guiltily, "I was incompetent and failed to keep her!"

Ruyan sobbed and shook her head, and said: "You have tried your best, but the snake spirit is too vicious!
From today onwards, I will never escape again!
I want Xiao Qingfang to pay ten times the price for Xiaomei's death! "

"Youzhi, what did Xiaomei say before she died?" Di Renjie asked Shen Youzhi.

Although he regretted the passing of a chivalrous woman, he also knew that he had more important things to accomplish.

Shen Youzhi heard the words and repeated Xiaomei's last words again.

After hearing this, Di Renjie said thoughtfully: "I think she must tell you the next action plan of the 'Snake Spirit', but it's a pity that she was too seriously injured to finish her sentence."

Li Yuanfang also said: "I think so too.

But my lord, these days, I've thought over and over these few words hundreds of times, but I still can't figure out the meaning. "

Di Gong pondered for a long time and said: "She told you to rush back to Luoyang immediately."

Shen Youzhi nodded, and replied: "Exactly."

Di Renjie paced back and forth in the room, muttering in his mouth: "These words must be very important, otherwise, Xiaomei would never say these words on her deathbed.

But... what is she trying to tell us? "

"I guess." Shen Youzhi reminded at the right time: "The word flash in Xiaomei's mouth should refer to the flashing spirit.

As for what the word "cold" means, I don't know. "

Di Renjie nodded, Shen Youzhi's idea was more in line with his guess, as for the word "cold" in Xiaomei's mouth
Could it be Hanguang Temple? !
Di Renjie suddenly thought that during the day, General Huan Bin of Qianniuwei came to report to him, saying that the emperor would go to Hanguang Temple to offer incense in two days, but a headless corpse suddenly appeared in the temple!
"Not good!" Di Renjie exclaimed suddenly: "The target of the snake spirit is the emperor!"

"My lord, what did you say?" Li Yuanfang said in confusion, "What emperor?"

Seeing this, Di Renjie shared his analysis with the three of them.

"So that's how it is!" Li Yuanfang suddenly said, "The snake spirit must have killed the monks in the temple and replaced them secretly. They will only wait for the emperor to come to Hanguang Temple to offer incense three days later, and suddenly attack them!"

Di Renjie nodded, but he felt that things would not be that simple.

It is absolutely impossible for the snake spirit to be so negligent in doing things. Behind this, there must be secrets that they don't know.

However, in any case, Di Renjie had to be extremely careful because of the safety of the emperor.

That night, Di Renjie took Li Yuanfang straight to the palace, trying to persuade the emperor to cancel the pilgrimage.

Although he knew in his heart that this possibility was unlikely, and he would probably return without success, but he had to do it.

Not only because of his duty as a courtier, but also because of his political sensitivity as an official for many years.

If he knew that someone had assassinated the emperor, but did not report it immediately, then once the matter was known to the emperor, no matter what the final result was, he would definitely have suspicions against him.

(End of this chapter)