Chapter 106 Jade Pearl
Flower Street is the quietest during the day, especially around midnight. Every corner building that had been bustling all night has turned from lively to silent. The strings of red lights on the gates have been extinguished. The girls have gone back to their houses to sleep, and the thugs He also fell asleep leaning against the table in the lobby.

Suddenly, a loud banging sound sounded from outside Qianxiang Building. The huge sound alerted a thug who was sleeping against the door. He stood up and said sleepily: "Who? Who is making trouble?"

"Ahhhhh!" screamed a little boy with a basket of apples in his arms. Suddenly, objects fell from the third floor and smashed the parking space set up against the wall specifically for guests. shed.

But it's not an object, it's a person.

The person jumped from the third floor. The impact was not small. Half of his chest was pierced by a protruding pillar. Blood spattered. A few drops of warm blood splashed onto the hand of the boy carrying the fruit basket. superior.

The child who witnessed this tragic scene was so frightened that he didn't even know the fruit basket slipped from his arm. His hands and feet were weak and he turned around and wanted to run away, but he collapsed on the ground.

At this time, the sound of people and horses approached, and the little boy stared blankly. It was not until his arm was held by the warm hand of a girl that he regained some consciousness.

The little boy trembled and said: "Dead, dead."

Xinnuo saw this scene from a distance, but her lightness skills were not enough for her to run over from such a long distance. Almost before anyone could react, the woman standing upstairs turned over and fell down.

"Don't be afraid, don't be afraid." Xin Nuo gently patted the little boy's back and comforted him for a while before asking a servant with a relatively immature face to accept it.

At this time, the noise caused by the falling woman had attracted many people to come out.

Some of them sighed, while others just looked at it indifferently.

Chu Wei asked people to surround the scene, so he came to fetch people and did not bring a coroner with him at all. He could only conduct a preliminary examination first.

There is no help.

Chu Wei withdrew his hand with a solemn expression.

Xin Nuo came over and said in a low voice: "My lord, go and see if there is any suspicious person nearby. I will do an autopsy first."

Although this woman could be said to have jumped right under their noses, the possibility of homicide cannot be ruled out before everything is clear.

Xinnuo first looked up at the height of the flower building. It was three stories, about three or four meters. The woman jumped from a window on the third floor.

There is also a distance of three meters from the ground.

It would not be fatal under normal circumstances. After all, she had the cushion of the stable roof when she jumped down.

Unfortunately, her chest was almost penetrated by a sharp hitching post below.Even if she fell from the second floor, she would definitely die.

The stable built in this brothel is already several years old, and the weight of several dozen kilograms is enough to penetrate the roof of the stable.

The woman's chest was still stuck on the wooden stake, and blood was gurgling out from the wound. Xinnuo stretched out his hand and pressed it. It pierced the heart lobe and killed her on the spot.

The death process is very fast, and there is a smile on the woman's lips. Even if it is because she is willing to die and feels that she is free from pain, if she suffers too much physical pain before death, it is impossible for her lips to appear. Smiling situation.

Chu Wei walked around the scene and came back and asked, "How was it?"

Xin Nuo stood up and said: "It is certain that she fell from a high building and died. The cause of death was the pillar that passed through her chest. She died directly from her heart being pierced."

She is a girl who is as weak as a flower, but when she says these words with a serious face, she looks like a sharp sword made of petals.

"Jumped off a building and was impaled to death by a horse post," Xinnuo said, looking up, "I always feel like it's a bit too much of a coincidence."

"It's indeed a coincidence," Chu Wei looked at the horse bolt that was still impaling the deceased, and said, "Although it was soaked in blood, it can be seen that this horse bolt was deliberately chipped."

Xin Nuo smiled and said: "It's really a good plan."

"Sir, the Madam from Qianxiang Tower has brought us here." Zhang Ku's loud voice sounded at this moment.

Qianxiang Tower?
What is the old bustard doing with Qianxianglou?
Could it be that the woman who jumped off the building was the girl from Qianxiang Tower?
Then this Qianxiang Tower really will kill itself if it does any unjust deeds.

Xin Nuo turned around and saw an old woman who had been brought in in a panic without even having time to comb her hair.

This woman is at least 40 years old. She may have to apply thick makeup and powder every day, and the skin on her face is drooping.When she saw the stable with a big hole in it and the woman half hanging there leaning against the pillar, she immediately slapped her legs and howled loudly.

"The stables are smashed, and there's not enough space in the backyard. How can we, Qianxiang House, welcome guests at night?"

Xin Nuo suspected that there was something wrong with her ears. She looked at Chu Wei and asked, "Is this old woman still worried about how her brothel will receive customers?"

Is a person's life not as important as receiving guests tonight in her eyes?
Only then did the old bustard realize that there were outsiders present, and cried: "Sir, we are also just ordinary people who can survive just for one meal. We don't have so much time to hurt the spring and the autumn."

"This is a human life!" Xinnuo couldn't help but say.

The old bustard's ears twitched when he heard the sound, and when he saw Xin Nuo's face, his eyes lit up.

With this little face that looks like an angry peony, and this graceful and graceful figure, if we get their Qianxiang Tower, Qianxiang Tower will be prosperous in other provinces within ten days.

At this time, Xinnuo was no longer a living person in her eyes, but a person made of gold. Any piece of gold dug out from her body would instantly turn into a golden brick.

Xinnuo said in disgust: "Look again, I'll dig out your eyeballs."

Chu Wei took a step forward, stood in front of Xinnuo, and said to the old bustard with a cold face: "I called you here to explain the situation."

There was no harsh word, but each word was like a knife with cold wind, making the old madam feel the pain of the skin being cut in a daze.

She lowered her head and said honestly: "I wonder what you want to ask?"

Not even honest.

Chu Wei smiled coldly and said: "Since I don't want to say it here, Zhang Ku, take the shackles and let her go to the government office and say it slowly."

Only then did the old madam realize that she was afraid, and hurriedly shouted: "Sir, I didn't push Yuzhu to jump off the building. She can't be in shackles. She already had that kind of internal disease and wouldn't live long. It was expected that she would want to be freed as soon as possible. matter."

At this time, I can't care about so much, the most important thing is to pick myself clean.

As for whether others will never dare to come here again after hearing that someone in their Qianxiang Building has a heart disease, that is a very easy matter to solve.

No matter what the old madam thought, Xin Nuo professionally took out a pen and paper from the bag at his waist and asked: "The name of the deceased?"

The old madam was stunned for a moment, but soon the two arresters who escorted her out came around. She was so frightened that she quickly repeated: "Yuzhu, her name is Yuzhu."

"Where is Miss Yuzhu's ancestral home?"

"When was it confirmed that she was infected with the disease?"

"Is she in Qianxianglou's position?" Xinnuo was a little confused when asked about this, but he quickly changed his explanation according to his own understanding: "What is her status?"

The old madam answered them one by one, her fear faded away, and she felt that it was a pity that such a woman was so cold. If...

Before he could finish thinking, his hands were caught in a heavy shackle.

She yelled: "What are you doing? I've told you everything I know. You can't arrest me."

Xinnuo smiled and said, "You won't forget, right? There is an injured girl in Qianxiang Tower, waiting for someone to identify her at the government office."

The old madam, who was still very imposing at first, could not control the expression on her face for a while, but then she forced herself to calm down and said: "What girl? There are many girls in our building."

A lot less, you'll find out in court.

Without any explanation, Zhang Ku picked up the old bustard and followed him.

On the way, Chu Wei told Xinnuo: "When you go back, you first arrange for the deceased to go to Yizhuang next to the prison."

"You won't let me go to court?" Xinnuo smiled and said, "Master Chu, is this Qianji Sect case terrible? I think you always consciously want to get rid of me."

Chu Wei: "It's not because it's scary, but because this case is very heavy."

There were too many dead.

It’s not just those mummified girls from before, there are many more who didn’t report the crime at all, only a corpse with a skeleton and white bones.

They were all found under a lush green vegetable field behind when they were checking the location of Qian Ji Jiao.

When Chu Wei saw it, he felt a sense of tingling horror.

"Okay," Xinnuo said, "Then I'll make arrangements for the girl and go over."

Chu Wei glanced at her and said nothing more.

Half an hour later, Xinnuo returned to the government office. In the courtroom, the door had been closed and the trial had begun.

This time, Cao Yueling, the leader of Qianji Sect, and a dozen other deputies were escorted to the hall, as well as a woman with scarlet eyes who was locked in a cage.

A case was being heard in the hall, and Xinnuo couldn't go in directly, so he listened in a small compartment on the side.

This small compartment is specially designed for some important people who are inconvenient to attend. It is very comfortable and has a plate of snacks on the table.

But it looked like it was from the next day and was no longer fresh, so Xin Nuo asked someone to change it.

In the courtroom, Hu Ping held a thick stack of red-lined official documents in his hand and read there. From the 15th year of Tai'an, the 35th year of Emperor Taixi, to the current [-]th year of Fengkang, during the [-] years in between, hundreds of people may have been discovered. Or the victims who have turned into bones are interrogated from the mouths of the powerful deputies of the Thousand Machines Sect.

One can't help but wonder whether the real number of victims is more than this.

Xin Nuo listened and couldn't drink the tea anymore. The servant who came to deliver the tea also brought a plate of cakes and was standing nearby to listen.

Suddenly, the guard staggered a step with red eyes.

"What's wrong?" Xin Nuo asked, "Did you not have breakfast? Have a snack."

The guard's voice trembled: "Girl, the ten-year-old deceased with a red mole behind his ear that I just mentioned may be a villain brother."

These lists were dug up by two colleagues from the government office who interrogated the deputies of the Thousand Machine Sect overnight. Many people did not have names, so they could only write down the characteristics that were asked from these people.

Therefore, the actual list is just some words describing characteristics.

Xin Nuo asked: "Are you sure?"

The guard said: "I'm sure, my brother went out to play with others when he was ten years old and couldn't be found. My parents are still looking for him all these years."

They wanted to live, and they couldn't make other children unable to live just to find a brother, so his parents opened a tea stall outside the city and inquired about people coming to Beijing from other places.

How could you have imagined that my little brother was not kidnapped at all, but captured and killed by the Qianji Sect members right under their noses.

Xin Nuo said: "We will talk later when the master retreats."

The officer suppressed his grief and nodded.

Here, Hu Ping's mouth was dry after reading.

Cao Yueling, who was kneeling at the front, was patient and listened quietly. Only then did he curiously say: "Sir, what are you reciting? I don't quite understand."

After escorting these people to the prison yesterday afternoon, Chu Wei followed Xinnuo home, so the big fish had not yet been interrogated.

I thought that the testimony I asked was enough, but I didn't expect that Cao Yueling's expression didn't change at all.

"Aren't these the children you tricked the disciples into being killed by the Qianji Sect in order to save your daughter's life?" Chu Wei's eyes were cold, like a sword just out of its sheath.

Cao Yueling's honest and weather-beaten face actually showed a confused look, "I'm sorry that I don't understand what my lord said. I do treat my newly married wife a little badly. But my lord, such a big array The battle really baffles the common people."

"Oh?" Chu Wei said, "Since you didn't do anything extremely sinful, why did you fight and resist when you saw the official officer yesterday?"

"Sir," Cao Yueling smiled bitterly and shook his head, "to say something treasonous, what is the difference between the imperial officials and the bandits in the green forest? If they catch me, I, an innocent person, will be covered in mud. Ah. I'm thinking, I still have a poor daughter to take care of. If I don't resist and are caught by you, how can she still live? "

So, it was the darkness of the court that forced him to resist?

Chu Wei frowned, "You are really eloquent. How do you explain the girl from Qianxianglou who had her blood sucked by you?"

Cao Yueling looked surprised and embarrassed, gasped and said, "Sir, my daughter is a little crazy. I didn't keep an eye on her that day, and actually asked her to run out and bite someone."

Chu Wei looked at the old madam of Qianxianglou who was kneeling at the back and was still shivering, and asked: "Ms. Zheng, tell me? Last night, the servants from the Yamen went to Qianxianglou to ask why you hid Miss Mei Yan. The presence?"

The old bustard's surname was Zheng. She was once a rich man, but after her father committed a crime, she was implicated in a lowly status. Unlike other young ladies who feel sorry for themselves, she quickly adapted to the life in a brothel.

Relying on her middle-class appearance and talent of knowing a few romance poems, she became an oiran from the beginning. When she got older, she took over the Qianxiang Tower from the previous madam and transformed into another ruthless woman without any obstacles. A villain who exploits a woman's youth and beauty.

Dayue has regulations that court officials are not allowed to engage in prostitution, but every brothel on Flower Street actually has a court official as a backer.

After Mrs. Zheng took over Qianxiang Tower, she developed two or three more backers. She maintained relatively good contact with her backers by giving money to others.

(End of this chapter)

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