Chapter 1541: All moral virtues are gone, the family is ruined
"Lord Commander."
When the Biyan carriage passed through the archway of Fangshi, Deputy Commander Sun saluted.
The horse carriage stopped.
Jin An opened the curtain: "Deputy Commander Sun, is there anything you want to report?"
Hearing the sound of a woman sobbing and struggling from the carriage, Deputy Commander Sun lowered his eyebrows and did not dare to glance into the carriage: "Your Majesty, Commander, someone from the Ministry of Internal Affairs came just now, but they came in a carriage, so what?
He left again without getting off the carriage, and could not see which eunuch was coming."
"That happened to be the time when the commander raided Tiangong Miao Pavilion and injured Su Susu, the shopkeeper of Tiangong Miao Pavilion."
Jin An snorted coldly: "At least this chamberlain minister is somewhat self-aware. Seeing that I even dared to search the property of an academician of Taiyuan Hospital, he didn't humiliate himself by asking for help. He knew that if the governor wasn't a prisoner, the palace supervisor would come in person.
We can’t stop the Criminal Investigation Department’s fire today.”
Of course, the other party may also have the intention of killing someone with a borrowed knife. First, let the Criminal Investigation Department and Taiyin Hospital kowtow to death, causing both sides to suffer losses, and then let the Zhidian Supervisor read a book in the emperor's ear, adding insult to injury to the Criminal Investigation Department.
The Ministry of Internal Affairs has twelve prisons, four divisions, eight bureaus, and twenty-four eunuchs.
Each of the twelve eunuchs has one eunuch of the fourth grade.
Among the twelve prisons, there are also important and unimportant ones. For example, the Duzhi prison, who serves the emperor every day, and the inner palace prison, who is in charge of the royal family's treasury, are the ones who can best talk to the emperor.
Therefore, the reinforcements moved in from the Ministry of Internal Affairs saw that the Criminal Investigation Department dared to touch even the academician of the Tai Hospital. They knew that the Criminal Investigation Department was operating on the spice shop today. There was absolutely no misunderstanding or misunderstanding. As long as they were not stupid, they would not force it at this time.
Head up.
It is estimated that the other party is so anxious to go back because he also wants to find the governor and check the emperor's side. The storm in the capital is too fierce. If there is any big movement in the palace, the people below should make careful preparations in advance to protect themselves.
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As time goes by, the big news of the Criminal Inspector in the spice shop has spread to the whole city. The people in the capital have already learned that no one dared to touch the spice shop in the past. The Criminal Inspector went in tonight and beheaded and killed.
Arrest people.
For ordinary people, the most ordinary petty officials are the big shots they cannot afford to offend. When they heard that all the ninth-rank chamberlains in the Ministry of Internal Affairs were beheaded in the street by the Criminal Investigation Department, it caused a lot of surprises.
The capital is very lively tonight, because the people in the capital are flocking to the spice shop. Now it has been spread throughout the capital that the Criminal Inspectorate is going to fight with the Ministry of Internal Affairs, and the Criminal Inspectorate in charge of public security is fighting with the eunuchs in the palace.
There are many people who do good deeds among the people, but the more they spread, the more evil they become.
It’s just that the outside of the spice shop was already crowded with people watching the excitement. The crowds were so crowded that they couldn’t squeeze in for a long time. When they heard that the commander of the Criminal Investigation Department led a large number of people to the residence of the academician of the Taiyuan Hospital to arrest the Taiyuan Hospital, these latecomers
They immediately changed direction and rushed towards the residence of the academician of Taiyuan Hospital.
"Sure enough, the familiar Marquis Shenwu is back! On the first day after Marquis Shenwu returned to the capital, he didn't even take a break. He immediately went to the Ministry of Internal Affairs for surgery, and now he's going to the Taiyuan Hospital for surgery! That one dared to bend his bow and shoot him outside the imperial city.
Wuhou, the domineering god of the Rakshasa people, is really back!"
"The business in the spice shop has always been controlled by the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Imperial Hospital. In particular, the spice shop has been responsible for developing special rouge for the concubines in the palace. I heard that behind the spice shop is the power of the natal clan of the noble concubines. Marquis Shenwu takes the spice shop
When you perform surgery, you are performing surgery on the noble concubines in the palace!"
"Hush, you dare to talk nonsense like this about beheading, it's your life! We only need to discuss the struggle between the Ministry of Internal Affairs, Imperial Hospital, and the Criminal Investigation Department!"
"The Criminal Investigation Department of the Spice Shop, which others dare not investigate, came to investigate. This time the Criminal Investigation Department showed its prestige!"
Discussions broke out among the people, and the big families in the capital couldn't sleep all night. The situation in the capital was about to change. Someone used the spice shop to operate on the ministers, imperial hospitals, and concubines in the harem.
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Imperial hospital residence.
As the Biwan carriage stopped in front of the mansion, a large number of criminal inspectors with unsheathed swords surrounded the mansion. The atmosphere was tense. The originally drowsy gatekeeper was so frightened that he lost all sleep and rushed in in panic.
Notify the situation at the mansion.
Soon the housekeeper went out to greet the Criminal Investigation Department. The housekeeper asked the Criminal Investigation Department why he came to the house late at night, but he was pushed aside by the Criminal Investigation Department. The housekeeper also wanted to show off the prestige of the slave of the academician of Taiyuan Hospital, but was rejected by the Criminal Investigation Department.
With the long knife on his neck, he immediately became more honest as he watched the Criminal Inspector rush into the mansion with murderous intent.
But in the next scene, the butler's expression immediately changed from anger to fear and fear.
Jin An held Su Susu, the female shopkeeper of Tiangong Miao Pavilion, in his hand, and stepped off the carriage. Su Susu was like a useless person in Jin An's hands, unable to struggle. Her hair was disheveled, and she was uttering nonsense and whimpering. There was no trace of anything left in her mouth.
The oiran had a beautiful appearance, but what remained was as miserable as a bereaved dog.
"Where is Cheng Baiqing, academician of the Taiyuan Hospital? I suspect Cheng Baiqing is suspected of collaborating with the enemy and treason, and I am here to arrest Cheng Baiqing. Please lead the way." Jin An coldly ordered the housekeeper.
When the housekeeper heard the words "collaboration with the enemy and the country", he would not believe it even if he died. He cried out angrily and said that his father was an academician of the Taiyuan Hospital today and was deeply loved by the saint. How could he be a collaborator with the enemy and the country? This was someone who was spreading rumors and slanders, hoping to find out more clearly.
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Jin An directly threw the embroidered shoes and turquoise pendant into the butler's arms: "Are these the shoes of your young lady Cheng Ling'er?"
The housekeeper immediately recognized that the shoes belonged to his young lady and hurriedly asked: "My young lady has been missing for seven days. Where did you find my young lady? Where is my young lady now? Has she eaten well and slept well these days? Old slave
Immediately send someone to take the young lady back home."
Jin An snorted coldly: "The disappearance of the daughter of an academician of Taiyuan Hospital is not a trivial matter. Why didn't our Criminal Investigation Department receive a report from you?"
The housekeeper looked deep into the mansion and answered in a low voice while holding his shoes: "Since the old lady passed away due to illness the year before last, the master has been busy with the affairs of the Taiyuan Hospital every day. He rarely cares about the affairs of the mansion, and his relationship with the young lady has sometimes been at loggerheads."
"Seven days ago, the young lady had another quarrel with the master and ran away in anger. There has been no news for several days. The master said that the young lady will come back in a few days when her anger subsides. The master is not allowed to report it to the official, and we servants can't say anything.
Why……"
"I have also inquired about the whereabouts of the young lady several times. Some people said that they saw the young lady going to Tiangong Miao Pavilion before she disappeared. But I went to the shopkeeper of Tiangong Miao Pavilion to inquire, and the shopkeeper said that the young lady has returned..."
Jin An looked coldly at Su Susu, who was paralyzed, and asked: "What did Cheng Linger and Cheng Baiqing quarrel about that day?"
The butler was hesitant at first and refused to tell. After the knife placed on his neck made a small bloody cut on the skin, the butler hurriedly told the truth: "The master and the miss often quarrel about shopkeeper Su Susu. The miss said the other day that the master has known her since we met.
The vixen named Su's temperament changed drastically after that. The old lady was poisoned to death by the two of them. The old man got angry and slapped the young lady..."
"Hey, the young lady ran out of the mansion sadly, saying that she was going to Tiangong Miao Pavilion to kill the vixen to avenge her mother, and asked the master to choose one, his biological daughter or the vixen raised outside..."
Jin An: "Cheng Linger is dead. He was killed by this poisonous woman. Take me to find Cheng Baiqing."
The butler looked up at Su Susu in disbelief, then held the embroidered shoes in his arms and cried loudly, showing the deep love between master and servant.
Under the guidance of the housekeeper, a group of people surrounded a medicine garden in Cheng Mansion. There was a medicine pavilion built in the medicine garden.
The butler with a sad look pointed at the medicine pavilion and said: "The master often studies prescriptions in the medicine pavilion and does not go out for several days. The master has not been out of the medicine pavilion these days. The old slave prepares three meals a day himself."
Come to the door."
As the door of the medicine pavilion was broken open from the outside, the shadow of the knife flashed, and a large number of criminal inspectors broke into the medicine pavilion.
At this moment, many poisonous centipedes fell overhead. These poisonous centipedes were very strange. Their carapace was black and extremely poisonous. They had transparent wings on their backs and could fly in the sky.
The old Taoist priest who had been following Jin An was shocked when he saw this. He reached out and quickly picked up the wine gourd, drank a sip of Sanyang wine, and sprayed it towards the flying black centipede that fell from the sky.
Zizzi!
The yin energy of these flying black centipedes was so cold that as soon as they came into contact with Sanyang wine, black smoke immediately erupted from their hard carapace, and their bodies curled up and fell to the ground, turning into blood in a short time.
The blood has corroded the floor tiles and created many pits. The blood of these poisonous insects is more poisonous than aqua regia.
There are so many flying black centipedes here that the old Taoist priest can't kill him with a sip of Sanyang wine. The next moment, more flying black centipedes flap their transparent wings and pounce on the outsiders who break into the medicine pavilion.
The number is so large that it is airtight, like a black curtain wall pressing down on them.
But wherever Jin An passed by, Yang blood was burning like a furnace, and all these poisonous insects were ignited in the air and turned into ashes in an instant.
Avenue induction!
A hundred virtues!
A hundred virtues!
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This is not the residence of the academician of Taiyuan Hospital. This is clearly the poisonous den of Yin Mansion.
With Jin An opening the way, the flying black centipede in the medicine pavilion soon died.
According to what the housekeeper said on the way here, the Medicine Pavilion is the most important place in the Cheng Mansion. Many of Cheng Baiqing's new medicines and precious medicinal materials are hidden here. Only Cheng Baiqing can enter, not even Cheng Baiqing's disciples have the right to enter.
This medicine pavilion covers a large area. After entering the medicine pavilion, I smelled some musty smell.
The old Taoist priest took out the yellow talisman again and stuffed it into his nose: "Little brother, do you smell something moldy?"
Jin An nodded: "Yeah."
The old Taoist priest sniffed the air vigorously, looking for the source of the strange smell. Seeing that he could not find the source of the strange smell, he took out the talisman paper in his nose again and smelled it.
"It's the smell of rancid food!"
The old Taoist priest screamed and quickly stuffed the talisman paper back into his nose again.
Not long after, they saw a lot of smelly and moldy food. The food was all placed on wooden trays without even a bite being touched. The meat and rice grains were covered with dense moldy spots, and the yellow, green, and purple lint were all covered with mold.
have……
Those wooden pallets were stacked densely, and based on three meals a day, they had accumulated enough food for at least ten days.
"Cheng Baiqing seems to be obsessed with refining medicine at this time, to the point where he forgets to sleep and eat, and doesn't eat or drink."
The old Taoist priest was still praising him, but he asked Jin An in a low voice: "Little brother, do you think this Cheng Baiqing is a human being or a ghost?"
It is still spring, and the weather has not warmed up significantly yet, so these meals have been left out for ten days, and the rancid smell slowly dissipates. The housekeeper of Cheng Mansion did not notice anything unusual when he came to deliver the meals every day.
Those food trays took up a lot of ground, and the floor was almost full. The old Taoist priest jumped over the food like he was playing treasure, and an alchemy furnace appeared in front of him.
The alchemy furnace is three people tall. There is a slow fire beating inside the alchemy furnace at this moment. It seems that the final stage of collecting the elixirs with a slow fire has come.
However, the top of the alchemy furnace was lifted up by a winch chain on the side, and it seemed that the alchemy collection had ended.
"I didn't see Cheng Baiqing, the academician of Taiyuan Hospital, along the way. Could it be that he got the news in advance and fled in fear of crime?" the old Taoist priest muttered.
Jin An's eyes were always fixed on the alchemy furnace.
The old Taoist priest turned around and looked around, and found a long ladder next to rows of towering medicine cabinets. Then he climbed up the ladder and looked curiously into the alchemy furnace from a high place. He saw a figure sitting cross-legged in the alchemy furnace with a slow fire.
He was a thin old man with white beard and hair, motionless, as if he was sitting on a corpse. His face, hands, and neck were covered with hairy mildew spots, like ugly green or purple corpse spots all over his body.
Under the slow fire of the alchemy furnace, the corpse spots were contained and did not spread further.
"Isn't this Cheng Baiqing, academician of Taiyuan Hospital!" the old Taoist priest whispered.
Jin An obviously stood still and did not see the scene in the alchemy furnace, but at this moment he said something shocking: "To be more precise, he is the empty shell of Cheng Baiqing, and Cheng Baiqing is dead."
"The academician of Taiyuan Hospital was already dead when he met Su Susu seven years ago!" This was the old Taoist priest's first reaction.
"Then how did he hide from the supervision of the Tianshi Mansion in front of the imperial city gate after entering the palace for so many years?"
Jin An: "He must have just died a few days ago. The reason why he is sitting in the alchemy furnace now is because someone is refining the body with elixir fire and using elixirs to slow down the decay of the body. He does not want the outside world to know too early that the academician of Taiyuan Hospital died suddenly.
At home.”
The old Taoist priest was still standing on the long ladder, looking at Cheng Baiqing's corpse sitting in the elixir fire for refining. He was full of doubts: "What is the purpose of preserving his body? Does the person behind it want to keep Cheng Baiqing's body for other purposes, such as giving
An important figure in the palace was poisoned?"
Jin An looked indifferent: "If you interrogate this Su Susu witch, everything will be revealed."
The dead man who was sitting cross-legged in the alchemy fire of the alchemy furnace and remained motionless suddenly opened his eyes, and there was an evil black energy flashing in his eyes.
"Little brother, be careful!"
There was no need for the old Taoist priest to remind him that Jin An's spiritual consciousness had already seen the changes in the alchemy furnace. Jin An had already prepared the King of Qin Bone Mirror and suppressed Cheng Baiqing's body until it could not move.
"Three religions and nine schools are worthy of working in front of me." Jin An directly grabbed Cheng Baiqing's body from the alchemy furnace.
Without the elixir fire to suppress the death aura, mold spots on the surface of Cheng Baiqing's body immediately spread rapidly, causing a stink. Then the flesh and blood peeled off like mud, and the internal organs also fell to the ground. The ten-day decomposition process was completed in just a short period of time.
"Originally attached to the soul, even a Third Realm Shinto dares to eavesdrop on our conversation. Let me see who is controlling the corpse!" Looking at the highly decomposed Cheng Baiqing corpse in his hand, Jin An did not throw it away in disgust, and directly used the Taoist technique of detecting the bag to retrieve the object.
, launch a fight from a distance to arrest people.