Imperial City Investigative Department

Chapter 126 Up the Mountain Again (Third Watch)

"If you ask me, everyone in the world knows that beautiful jade is produced in Xijiang. If they are for jade, and they have financial resources, if they pay a lot of money, someone will get the jade and sell it to them secretly. Why bother to do this? Even if it is perfect, there is no chance. .” Said the sophomore.

"That's right, they spent a lot of trouble just for the five-color jade, it doesn't make sense, what else are they throwing away?" Wu Chen asked.

"Horses, didn't Chen Wuzhao say that when they arrived, there were only dozens of horses left. What about the rest? I also heard from some villagers that someone got a horse. Could it be that those hundreds of horses ran back to the western border by themselves?" Xu Da asked.

Wu Chen smiled and asked, "Who do you think will need horses?"

The second year of high school thought for a while and asked in a low voice: "It's hard to say, bandits want horses, but since the late emperor ordered people to wipe out bandits everywhere, I haven't heard of any mountain with a large number of bandits in these years... ...Could it be that someone wants to rebel and recruit troops to steal horses?"

Wu Chen frowned and said, "The difficult part of this case is that we don't know the murderer's purpose. Apart from jade and horses, is it possible that the leader of the army has other missions to enter the capital this time? It's a secret mission? Who will?" know?"

"Of course a general in the army." Xu Da replied.

"It doesn't make sense. If there are still insiders, even killing these 500 people is useless, unless there are also murders in the Western Xinjiang Garrison. My second brother will help me find out if there is any news about the deaths of the Western Xinjiang Garrison as soon as possible."

"Okay!" The sophomore got up and walked towards the door.

Wu Chen tapped his fingers on the table rhythmically, thinking in his heart, if there was a murder in Xijiang, how could that old fox of Chen Zhong not smell it?He smelled it, so why should he come forward to investigate?This direction should be wrong.

Just look at changing the place after killing, the people behind the scenes want to let the court know, and then investigate, the theory of Yinbing robbery is untenable, but they still use it, why?Could it be precisely because they used this excuse that the officials ordered people from the Royal Investigative Department to investigate, and the people from the Imperial City Investigative Department came to investigate, which already showed that the case was weird, and the Imperial City Investigative Department Those who are sure will remain undisturbed until the truth is ascertained.

This is also the only saving grace of Chen Zhong, his loyalty to officials is unmatched.

The second year of senior high school came back and sat down after making arrangements, and asked: "When Song Tixing arrives, do you still want to find out where the five hundred soldiers were killed?"

Wu Chen nodded and said:
"As it should be, at least we know which direction the team is heading, and if we calculate the time, we may be able to find the real crime scene very quickly. However, I have no resources at all. It is useless to find it without seeing it with my own eyes, but time has passed so quickly. After a long time, I'm afraid nothing will be left behind."

"Then the case of the Cao family extermination is going to be let go?" Xu Da asked.

Wu Chen scratched his head and said, "Finish today's work first, and I will take a good look at it tonight. I don't know what I will find in the Taoist temple today."

The sophomore said: "If I want to say that those people in the Taoist temple should be interrogated by torture, they must have frightened people to make money all these years, and they should have suffered some flesh and blood."

Wu Chen stood up and walked towards the door, talking softly to himself as he walked: "The murder and burning of the house to attack me is so well arranged, it means that they knew in advance that I would go down the mountain to check yesterday. Does anyone know my itinerary?"

Senior Two and Xu Damang got up to follow.

Wu Chen heard the movement in the front yard and knew that Guo Xuan was already summoning the yamen servants up the mountain, so he brought Gao Er and Xu Da over. They had a lot of things to do today, and it was the end of the day, so they needed to leave quickly.

The three of them walked to the front yard and looked at the yamen servants who were ready to stand in a row. The sophomore said to Wu Chen in a low voice, "The people in the county yamen should have known about your itinerary yesterday."

Wu Chen nodded. Who did so many people start with?

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A group of people rushed to the foot of Laojie Mountain again, and then divided into two groups, one led by Xu Da to search the Taoist temple, and the other led by Wu Chen to find the bones.

The ghosts yesterday were waiting in the forest on the branch road to the Taoist temple, and they led the way. Although the path in the mountain was a bit difficult, it didn't take much effort to find the bones, because the bones of them were thrown in different places. place, when everything is found, the sky is already dark.

Wu Chen took a closer look. The bones were basically not far from the foot of the mountain, and not halfway up the mountain. It was certain that the corpses were not thrown from a high place, and the bones were completely connected.

Wu Chen walked around every place where the corpses were dumped. There was a forest between the corpse dumps and the main road up the mountain. Basically, there was no stepping on the road, but he could walk to the side of the mountain. Few people come to these places on weekdays, but the murderer knows it.

Every time he went to a place where the corpses were dumped, Wu Chen would talk to himself in front of the mountains and forests, watching Guo Xuan and the yamen servants break out in cold sweat during the day, and the clerks were busy picking up the corpses, but they didn't pay attention.

Wu Chen asked about the situation when they were killed. They were almost the same. They passed out and died. They didn't know who killed them and who threw their bodies away, and they never saw the scene of others being thrown out.

This made Wu Chen think of a possibility. They were not dead when they were discarded, they were just in a coma. The death happened after they were discarded, so when they floated up, they saw their own bones here.

That was not killed by a sharp blade.

Wu Chen felt that it was more like killing by poison, like a poison that could paralyze the nerves excessively and lead to organ failure and death.

After the group collected all the bones, they walked to the foot of the mountain and found that Xu Da and his soldiers were already waiting there.

Wu Chen took a few steps quickly, and Xu Da also quickly walked up to meet him. Wu Chen asked, "How is it? Did you find anything?"

Xu Da said: "In the Taoist temple, they hid some money, food, and some medicinal materials, and nothing else. But behind the Taoist temple, not far from the courtyard wall, three bones were dug up. I didn't let them move." , thinking about waiting for you to go and see it before talking about it.”

Wu Chen nodded and muttered, "Behind the Taoist temple."

"Yes, it's very close to the wall, and it's not buried deep, otherwise we wouldn't have discovered that there was a skeleton with fingers exposed."

"Let's go, let's go back and talk."

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(End of this chapter)