The Oiran Case Chapter 25: The Skull Was Found in the Back Garden
The Office of the Minister of Rites.
Chen Lei, the Minister of Rites, and his first wife had been childhood sweethearts since childhood. From childhood sweethearts to having a case with each other, they once became a legend in the capital. However, three years ago, the wife of the Minister of Rites suddenly suffered from a strange illness and passed away in a hurry. Six months later, the three-year-old apple also passed away.
Long gone.
After his wife and daughter left, Chen Lei seemed to have been hit hard. He no longer married and took concubines, and lingered in romantic places all day long.
The entire family is aware of Master Shangshu's love for his wife. It is said that every time his wife is born or dies, he will stay alone in his room and not come out for a long time, which is touching.
Yesterday, the master was taken to two factories by people from the West Factory. The servants of the Minister of Rites were worried about when the master would come back. Unexpectedly, one day later, not only did the master not come back, but the eunuchs from the West Factory came to turn over the house again.
Seeing Zhang Hele, the admiral of the West Factory, straddling his saber and commanding his subordinates to rush into the back garden of the Minister of Etiquette's Mansion one after another, the head butler nodded and bowed quickly, "Master Zhang, this, this, this... didn't I just come here yesterday?"
Why are you here again today!
Zhang Hele was too lazy to talk to the steward of the Minister of Etiquette, but continued to direct the scene.
"Please dig through them all for me quickly. Detective Yun Xuan said that the bones are in the back garden. Even if you dig three feet into the ground, you still have to dig them out for me!"
Some of the eunuchs of the West Factory were holding shovels and some were holding shovels, and they were digging in the back garden of the Minister of Rites' Mansion. After a while, the whole beautiful garden was in a mess.
"Oh! Father-in-law! Please be gentle! These flowers are so precious!" The head butler was almost heartbroken when he saw them. These potted flowers were all collected from all over Dajin, and some were imported from foreign countries.
The quality of the goods is valuable.
Zhang Hele nodded when he heard what the steward of the Minister of Rites said.
"You are right, old man. These flowers indeed look very expensive! Come here! While I'm looking for things, these precious flowers have been moved to the West Factory for me! I'll ask someone who knows the goods to take stock and look at his Minister of Etiquette.
How many years will it take Chen Lei’s salary to afford such a back garden?”
It is simply a genuine two-factory Governor's Mansion that is even more luxurious and noble!
You must know that their master is still a prince, and many treasures were moved from the prince's palace to the governor's palace. Since he became the governor of two factories, his quality of life has seriously declined!
Now that I have encountered Detective Yun Xuan trying to change the Feng Shui of the Governor's Mansion, I have hit a low point! It's hard to say whether I can get back up again in the future.
Zhang Hele made it very clear: He suspected that Chen Lei was enriching himself!
When the steward of Shangshu Mansion of the Ministry of Rites heard such a serious criticism, he quickly explained: "Admiral Zhang, you have misunderstood. These flowers are not expensive, not expensive at all!"
Zhang Hele laughed happily when he saw him changing his tone of voice like a magic trick.
"Is the housekeeper worried that while we were rummaging through things, the back garden of the Minister of Rites was also ransacked? Don't worry, we not only ransacked the back garden, we also ransacked your front yard and the main hall!"
"Here comes someone! Feige Chuanshu West Factory, please add some more manpower! Today, we are going to count and see how much food Chen Lei, a third-rank minister of the Ministry of Etiquette, can earn in a year!"
When the housekeeper heard this, his eyes darkened and he almost stopped standing.
It's over, it's over! The stuff factory that oversees Baiguan is determined to catch his master for corruption and bribery!
It would be easy to say that if the master could keep the wind in his sleeves and keep himself clean... But the master...
In other words: without checking!
Just when the housekeeper of Shangshu Mansion of the Ministry of Rites was thinking about leaving it alone and packing his bags to go back to his hometown, a noisy sound rang out not far away.
"Master Zhang! Found it! Found it!" The eunuchs, holding shovels and sweating profusely, were smiling.
The housekeeper of Shangshu Mansion didn't know what they were digging for, not to mention that he was old and his eyesight had always been poor. Driven by curiosity, he stepped forward and took a look.
Seeing this, he was so frightened that he collapsed on the ground.
It's... it's bones...
The white bones were chopped into pieces with a machete or something like that...
As the shovel dug deeper, half of the skull was dug out of the black soil where flowers and plants were planted.
…
East Factory, prison cell.
Gu Yangjing sent people to the Shangshu Mansion of the Ministry of Rites to find out what was going on. Shen Wuhe and others continued to be detained in the Dongchang cell, waiting for their release.
During the lunch break, Shen Yingying also sent a gift to her 21st century biological father.
Shen Wuhe opened the bag and took a look. There was a book inside. It was the "Time Travel Self-Rescue Guide" that he had given to Shen Yingying before. It was exactly the same! Shen Wuhe suddenly had mixed feelings. Only then did he realize This book I gave you before coming here is so useless and takes up so much space!
After a while, Shen Wuhe opened the last page of the "Time Travel Self-Rescue Guide". Next to the original tomb, there was now another one drawn, which read: The tomb of my father, Shen Wuhe.
There was also a small text written next to it: "Dad, don't be afraid if you die this time! I bought you a tomb in the suburbs, and then we will be neighbors in the underworld!"
Shen Wuhe closed the book with tears streaming down his face.
He really raised a good "filial" daughter! What a touching father-daughter relationship!
…
Dongchang, Governor's Mansion.
Before waiting for Zhang Hele and others to report, Gu Yangjing and Shen Yingying could only look at each other and sit opposite each other.
Shen Yingying smiled awkwardly and said, "Master Governor, please stop looking at me all the time."
It looks weird.
Gu Yangjing still had a straight face, "When I am alone, I like to face the door. If Detective Yun Xuan feels uncomfortable, just don't sit there."
When Shen Yingying heard this, she suddenly choked.
There are three chairs in the lobby of the Governor's Mansion, one is located in the east, facing the door. The other two are placed on both sides of the entrance, which means that as long as you sit on the chairs, you can feel Gu Yangjing's affection from time to time. Sight. Although I am looking at the main entrance, I always feel uncomfortable somewhere!
I think this guy is too fierce-looking. He is beautiful, but he looks like a cold-faced King of Hell. Those who don't know better think he is here to kill him.
Gu Yangjing has the kind of face that is born to be world-weary. When he is not smiling, the corners of his mouth are always pointed downwards, his lips are very thin, and his eyebrows are slender. When his eyes are staring in a certain direction, I don't know if he thinks he is trying to collect debts.
I always feel that this guy’s next sentence is: By the way, pay back the money.
"correct."
Gu Yangjing thought of something, and as soon as he said the words, the detective across from him blurted out: "No money!"
Gu Yangjing:??
Seeing the beautiful factory supervisor's rare confused look, Shen Yingying chuckled, "What the civilian girl means is, what does the supervisor have to do?"
"Detective Yunxuan can tell whether the other party has killed anyone by checking his pulse. Then, can Detective Yunxuan determine how many people the governor has killed in total?"
He was quite curious about this.
He did not take pleasure in killing people. But when he became the governor of the two factories, too many people wanted his life. In addition, the only way to pry open the prisoner's mouth was the corpse of his companion placed in front of the prisoner.
He joined the West Factory at the age of sixteen and merged the East and West factories at the age of seventeen. In just one year, he did not know how many people he killed and how many torture instruments he used before he could secure this position.
Now think about it, when he said he wanted to join the West Factory at the age of sixteen, even his father couldn't understand him.
When Prince Dajin reaches the age of sixteen, he will be assigned to various departments to learn matters related to investigation. After reaching the age of eighteen, he can officially take over the department he belongs to.
Who in Dajin didn't know that Gu Yangjing had a special status. But he was a prince. As long as he never mentioned it, no one would dare to point out the matter of his lack of roots in front of him. However, when he turned sixteen, he took the initiative to join the Western Army. factory, directly confirming the folk rumors.
Now that it is almost three years since he joined the West Factory, he sometimes really wonders how many people he has killed in the past three years.
Shen Yingying's face turned a little ugly when she heard this, turning blue and white in turns.
He hesitated when he spoke, "I want... I want a civilian girl... to help His Highness do the math... do the math."
Seeing her like this, Gu Yangjing had some suspicions in his heart.
"Is it true to feel the pulse, but to know that the other person is the murderer by touching it is true?"
Seeing that Shen Yingying still didn't answer, Gu Yangjing added, "The mysterious detective's power won't be that when he touches the other party's body, he can make associations and know that the other party has killed those people."
Although he has never heard of such a thing, he has seen it in the story book. Someone who touches the deceased can see what happened to the deceased. Since there are people who know what happened before and after life, it is not surprising that there are people who know the evil.
Shen Yingying felt that this was unacceptable, so she simply shut up.
Gu Yangjing just took it as her acquiescence.
Suddenly, I remembered something again.
"Did Detective Yun Xuan see this governor kill anyone yesterday?"
Shen Yingying's amber eyes kept blinking, she pursed her lips and said nothing, but in her heart she just wanted to complain: Damn it, did this guy take my script? Can you guess this?!
Gu Yangjing understood, and his dark eyes flashed: "It's hard for Detective Yun Xuan to hold the governor's hand for so long yesterday."
His murderous methods sometimes scare me when I think about it. It's hard for this female detective to hold onto him for so long in order to take care of his emotions.
The truth is, he never thought that there was anything wrong with his lack of roots. But the world didn't think so.
This female detective probably looked at him with pity in her eyes.
Gu Yangjing touched his nose and said, "If Detective Yun Xuan likes those famous things that were previously placed in Zhao Xuefang, he should keep one or two for himself."
"Ah?" Shen Yingying, who had been silent all this time, finally expressed her biggest confusion today.
Gu Yangjing thought that Shen Yingying was overjoyed and didn't know how to show gratitude for a moment. Also, any of those famous things would be worth thousands of gold.
Who would have thought that what Shen Yingying was thinking was: I'll go, brother, are you going to send the beggars away?
I don’t covet one or two precious things in your house! What I covet is 17 or 18! When the time comes, if you use the blind trick, who in the world would have known that I would have stolen the dragon and turned it into a phoenix!
The two of them had their own thoughts and looked at each other for a while.
Just when Shen Yingying was wondering if she should look away first, the sound of a spy eunuch sounded outside the door.
"Report—Admiral Zhang to see—"
It seems that the bones have been found.
Sure enough, a thin and white eunuch with raised eyebrows walked in, straddling a machete.
"Supervisor! Lao Zhang has found it!" After saying that, he picked up a piece of skull.