Imperial City Investigative Department

Chapter 315 Inspection (Part [-])
Entering the palace again, Wu Chen did not go to see Li Heng, Li Heng ordered Xing Yun to wait at the palace gate, and the two went straight to the place where Li Yi was executed.

On the way, Wu Chen asked Xing Yun, "Is it unlucky to execute a sentence in the palace?"

"Is there still a small number of people who died in the palace?"

"Where is this going? Why is it so far away?"

"You mean the execution should be carried out in the Hall of Qinzheng?"

"Are you the Xing Yun who went to the tunnel with me?"

Xing Yun didn't speak.

"You two...Actually, I can't tell the difference, just to be fooled, who do the officials like more?" Wu Chen looked up and asked.

"You talk too much."

"If I were Li Yi, I would definitely not stay and not leave, it's meaningless."

"You are Li Yi, will you rebel?"

"Makes sense!"

Wu Chen stopped talking and silently followed behind Xing Yun, looking up from time to time.

"Why don't you talk?"

After walking for a while, Xing Yun suddenly turned around and asked.

"I have nothing to say to you, just lead the way."

"You don't speak, I thought you saw something."

"If I really saw something, I would stand still, how could I just not open my mouth?"

"What if you saw...intentionally say you didn't see it?"

Wu Chen snorted coldly and said, "If I do this, you really have nothing to do with me."

Xing Yun asked in a cold voice: "What good will it do you?"

"Don't you understand? You are still asking nonsense! I hope this is your personal idea. If the officials have this idea, I have to worry about whether Xingguo will be strong and the ghosts in the palace will not be able to get out. But if I want to control these ghosts, do I have to chat with them? Do I have to enter the palace? If I enter the palace, I can escape your eyes? Besides, I was the direct cause of Li Yi's killing. What can I do? From my point of view, at most I know the secrets of the palace, and I can see some scandals that living people can't see. If I want to do something, do I need these?"

Xing Yun snorted, but didn't speak.

Wu Chen also said:

"Li Yi, Su Chang, and Yuan Shuchun, they spent their entire lives trying to achieve the unity of human and ghost. What is the result? This kind of practice against the sky will be backlashed sooner or later. I'm not that stupid! I'm not that heartless! I'm not interested in Jiangshan!"

Xing Yun said impatiently: "I just asked one question, you have a lot of questions waiting for me!"

Wu Chen chuckled and said, "So if you want to ask questions in the future, you'd better think clearly."

The two didn't speak again.

Xing Yun didn't bring the palace lantern, and the two of them walked towards the remote place in the palace again. It can be said that it was getting darker and darker until they reached a low courtyard. Xing Yun pushed open the courtyard door, and the two walked in.

Wu Chen took a closer look. The house in front of him was not too tall, so it should be conveniently hidden in a corner of the palace. The shape of the whole house was different from other palaces in the palace. There were no cornices, bucket arches, caissons, and no carved beams and painted buildings.

"Is Li Yi executed in this room?"

"No, in this courtyard." Xing Yun pointed at Wu Chen's feet: "Right where you are standing, the flesh of Li Yi's body was cut off like a fish fillet, and blood was everywhere. He was the only one in the courtyard crying."

Wu Chen put his hands behind his back and said with a chuckle, "You're scaring me with these things, it's a bit tricky. If I say that, Li Yi will stand behind you covered in blood..."

Xing Yun rushed to the other side of Wu Chen.

"Su Chang and his disciples were also tortured here, right?" Wu Chen paced slowly, looking around carefully.

Xing Yun gave an 'hmm'.

Wu Chen snorted, and walked around the house with his hands behind his back. After seeing the overall appearance of the house, he couldn't help but gasped, and then returned to the original place and asked:

"The entire courtyard wall is round, and the house looks like a coffin. I don't understand what this is. I'm just curious. Do the officials want them to go or not?"

"what for?"

"I just feel that this place can imprison ghosts and keep them from going anywhere, but what the officials want is to let them leave as soon as possible after death. Do you think it's a bit contradictory? Did Li Yi know about this place before he was alive?"

Xing Yun shook his head and said, "I don't know."

"Is it because Li Yi doesn't know or you don't know?"

"I don't know if Li Yi knows!"

Wu Chen pursed his lips and said, "I'll go in and have a look. You're with Li Yi outside. He looks in pain, as if he wants to talk to someone."

Xing Yun pushed open the wooden door of the house first, and entered the house.

The inside of the house is long and there are no windows. Wu Chen can see it clearly, but in Xing Yun's eyes, there is probably only darkness.

There are many pillars in the middle of the room, and each pillar is carved with different patterns. There is a spiritual tablet in the middle of the house. There is only a spiritual tablet on it, and there is no word on the spiritual tablet.

Wu Chen walked around the house, and Xing Yun stood at the door without daring to move. Wu Chen asked, "The officials didn't let you carry the palace lantern, and there are no candles to light here. Are you afraid of disturbing whose cleanliness?"

Xing Yun said impatiently: "You just need to see if there are any ghosts."

"There are so many wooden pillars, if ghosts are hiding in them, I can't see them."

"What do you mean? Need to cut down these wooden pillars? I'm afraid the officials won't let it go"

"If I were you, with a major you don't understand, I would stop talking, let's go, go back and report to the official."

"Did you see it?" Xing Yun was a little anxious.

"How do you see it? What if you don't see it?"

"The officials have just gained some trust in you, don't do stupid things!"

Wu Chen walked out of the house shaking his head, came to the courtyard and turned to Xing Yun and said:

"Your brother is good to me, but there are some different ways of expression. You can rest assured. I have no idea if I have no purpose. I do n’t have a lie without an idea. The official family is just trying to test me. In this regard, there are people who are more powerful than me. Li Yi will not know at all, so he knows the consequences of the king. Su Chang and his apprentices will not stay, they have no obsession, although Su Chang is a little obsessed ... "

"Noisy!"

Xing Yun turned around and left.

……

After listening to Wu Chen's report, Li Heng nodded repeatedly, but he didn't keep Wu Chen any longer. He only said that Yin Shanggong of the Kyoto Prefecture would look for Wu Chen tomorrow, and that he would talk about leaving the capital after the case was clarified.

Wu Chen walked out of the main hall, Xing Yun waited outside, accompanied Wu Chen to the gate of the palace, only then did Wu Chen realize that the key had been locked in the palace at this time, and only Xing Yun could send him out of the palace.

Xing Yun was speechless all the way, and when the palace gate opened a crack, Xing Yun said: "You'd better not forget your original intention."

Wu Chen waved his hand impatiently and said, "Go back and wash up and sleep! Eat salty radish and don't worry about it!"

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(End of this chapter)