The Oiran Case Chapter 31: The Head Rolled to the Foot
When Gu Yangjing solves a case, he makes assumptions first, assuming the plot first and then verifying it one by one. Since he joined the West Factory at the age of 16, the case he wants to handle has never been second to others.
He thought that he had solved this case quickly enough. Even the identity of the headless female corpse had not been sent to the Chu Mansion for identification. He only made a rough guess... Who would have thought that Dali Temple would be even better than him?
After a while, Gu Yangjing thought of someone.
"Has Dali Temple contacted Zhaoxuefang regarding the disappearance of the imperial concubine?"
"This slave doesn't know either. But the letter sent from Dali Temple said that if the East-West Factory is unwilling to help transfer the relevant cases, it's okay."
"But the governor please remember to release Shen Yushi and others. He said that Dali Temple has sufficient evidence to show that the scene of the first crime was in Linjiangxian, not Xijiangyue. Shen Yushi and others have been cleared long ago Suspect, tonight is the Ghost Festival, and I hope the governor will not delay the reunion dinner at your home..."
After the little eunuch finished speaking, he raised his head tremblingly and took a peek at his master's emotions.
Okay, okay. It seems relatively peaceful.
What's even worse about the words in the letter is that he conveyed them tactfully.
Gu Yangjing also knew that this letter must have been written by Gu Nantian himself, so he didn't bother to open it and read it.
"Please write a letter for me. Just say that I am a first-grade official in the imperial court, and junior officials of the third grade should not try to instruct me to do things."
"Slave, I obey." The young eunuch accepted the order and quietly withdrew.
When gods fight, mortals suffer. The tone of the governor's reply to the young minister of Dali Temple was really rude.
The governor is beneath one person and above ten thousand people. They can scold anyone they want by pointing their noses at them, but they don't dare to do such arrogant things, so they go out quickly and think about the right words to use.
Dongchang Dungeon.
Tonight is the night of reunion. Except for Chen Lei, the Minister of War, who was sentenced to exile for murder, corruption and other crimes, the other five ministers are staying in the same cell.
"well--"
"well!"
"well!!!"
The five men, who together were over two hundred years old, held on to the railings, looked at the small skylight exposed on the top of the cell, and sighed.
No matter how small the window is, you can still see the bright full moon outside.
Today is the Hungry Ghost Festival, the day for the reunion dinner. How could they end up like this!
"Hungry." Minister of the Ministry of Industry said.
"Isn't there a skylight here? When you look at the moon outside the window, does it look like a big cake? Just imagine yourself eating it, looking at the plum blossoms to quench your thirst, okay?" suggested the Minister of Etiquette.
"I can't see. I can be near but afraid of distance."
Translated into the current vernacular: myopia!
"Even if you are timid, you can still tell that it is a round pancake? If you continue to look at it, it looks like a green onion pancake. It is garlic-flavored. Deep-fried, it will be charred on the outside and tender on the inside, with a fragrant aroma..."
"It seems a bit like..."
"Yes, yes! Just think of it this way, the skin is golden and crispy, the aroma lingers in the nose, and when you take a bite, it is tender, soft, smooth and refreshing, with a lingering fragrance in your mouth..."
Before the Minister of Rites could finish what he said, the stomach of the old friend beside him started to growl.
"Gulu——"
"What Mr. He said was so good, it made me even hungrier." The Minister of the Ministry of Industry held his bulging belly and felt aggrieved.
The Minister of Etiquette simply rolled his eyes and said, "I'm asking you to eat so fat on weekdays! Look at our Yushi Shen, we are so skinny and don't even complain about hunger."
With that said, the two of them looked at Shen Wuhe.
Shen Wuhe rolled his eyes, exposed the whites of his eyes, and fell backwards——
"Master Shen!"
"Oh my God!"
"Yu Shi Shen is so hungry that he faints!"
The four people hurriedly stepped forward, and with eight hands and four hands, they finally managed to straighten Shen Wuhe upright amid the chaos.
"Old Shen! Are you okay?" Several people couldn't help but have red eyes.
It’s really hard for them! How come it’s so hard to just try to fish in troubled waters in Daikin!
Just when several people were angry, the door upstairs suddenly opened.
Facing the light outside the door, he saw Gu Yangjing and everyone from Dongchang walking in.
I saw Gu Yangjing hurried downstairs in person, and then walked to the cell.
Gu Yangjing took the key and opened the door for everyone himself.
"My lords, I'm really sorry. Yang Jing has been too busy recently and has forgotten all of you."
Everyone didn't know what the governors of the two factories were doing, but after all, he was also a first-grade official, and he was still the future master. After thinking over and over again, he decided to take the conventional path.
That is to say, flattering! Although a dog, but steady!
"Your Highness, you should be busy. We are in our prime. We will only stay in jail for a few nights. We have nothing to do and we can endure it."
"That's right! You can hold on!"
After the Minister of Rites finished speaking, he felt that Shen Wuhe's appearance of being hungry and fainting was not very convincing, so he quickly shook him awake.
"Master Shen, wake up quickly, Your Highness is here."
Shen Wuhe was shaken uncomfortably, and he finally woke up hazily.
After waking up, I quickly got up.
"Your Highness."
He wanted to salute Gu Yangjing, but he was so dizzy that he almost lost his balance when he lowered his head.
In the end, he was supported by Gu Yangjing, the dignified governor of the two factories.
Being able to have the current prince help him, Shen Wuhe felt that he could go directly to Dongjiekou to buy a lottery ticket tomorrow.
Su Er quickly bowed, "It's just that I'm in such bad shape! Thank you, Your Highness!"
Gu Yangjing didn't say anything and still kept smiling.
But Gu Yangjing looked so fierce and looked like the King of Hell when he smiled. This made several ministers feel very anxious.
What on earth did these fifth princes do? It confused several old foxes who had been in the officialdom for a long time.
"I originally wanted to invite a few adults to dinner and apologize to them, but I thought that today is the Ghost Festival, so I wouldn't want to waste the time for you and your family to have dinner."
"I have prepared some gifts for all of you. Don't worry about me because of what happened in the past few days."
"If you gentlemen don't mind, I'll take you out of the East Factory."
The governors of these two factories apologized and personally escorted several ministers out of jail, which made them want to get angry, but they felt they couldn't.
This is the workplace PUA method that people in the 21st century often say "slap and give a sweet date". Unfortunately, Shen Wuhe, who came from the 21st century at that time, couldn't recognize it because he was too hungry!
All he could think about was: Hungry! I want to eat!
I have never been to Dongxi Factory to be tortured before. Now that I think about it, is it that Dongxi Factory has always been so kind to the ministers who were released without incident? Then this fifth prince has really studied the human heart thoroughly.
Although several people were suspicious, they could only accept it.
Firstly, he is a prince, and if he wants his subjects to die, they have to die. Secondly, the gift given by His Highness the Fifth is indeed valuable.
…
Xichang sent a headless female corpse to the General's Mansion, and Dali Temple sent a human head to the General's Mansion.
Although the head and body had long been damaged in many places, Chu Zhonglang and his wife recognized the body at a glance as they knew the daughter better than her parents. It was indeed their only beloved daughter, the jewel in the eyes of the General's Mansion - Chu Wanyun.
Chu Zhonglang's parents mourned all night, and the General Chu's Mansion held a funeral the next day, with plain carriages and white horses, mourning and music, and a ten-mile long street full of mourners.
Now that his daughter was dead, Chu Zhonglang felt ashamed of his kindness to the second prince, so he offered to cancel the marriage when his majesty came to visit the south.
However, Gu Xingchen said that he had already been deeply in love and insisted on marrying Chu Wanyun.
Therefore, on the 16th day of the seventh month of the 40th year of Sheng Yuanli, on the day Chu Wanyun was buried, a funeral ceremony was also held at the Second Prince's Mansion.
The magnificent Second Prince's Mansion, with the main hall as the central axis, is decorated with red colors on one side and white cloth on the other half. Weddings and weddings are held together. Joy and sorrow are intertwined, and Chu Wanyun's memorial tablet is invited into the Second Prince's Mansion.
That scene was quite strange.
On the day of the second prince's wedding, some of Shen Yingying's friends, such as Dali Si Si Zheng, Gu Nantian and others, came to Zhaoxuefang to visit her. They all pretended to be free to see their friends, but in fact they were worried about her mood. .
After all, the previous ambiguity between Shen Yingying and Gu Xingchen was such that even the current Holy Emperor would ask, "Do I want to marry you two?"
"Daughter, are you really okay?"
Seeing that her father didn't believe her, Shen Yingying raised her eyelids.
"Dad! Gu Xingchen and I have an old story that happened eight hundred years ago. Can you please stop mentioning it. You always find it very happy to expose my dark history, don't you?"
"Dad, I also care about you and worry that you will be sad."
Shen Yingying was amused by these words.
"What should I be sad about? I'm sad that his wife died on his wedding night, and when he opened the red hijab during the wedding night, he found that his wife had no head?"
"Then I'm really sad. I'm sad that he lived such a twisted life."
He obviously didn't know Chu Wanyun at all, but in order to win people's hearts and ensure that Chu Zhonglang would be loyal to him, he acted like he was so bitter and affectionate. It was really perverted.
Seeing that Shen Yingying said it was okay, Shen Wuhe stopped worrying. After a while, he took out a return note stamped by Dongchang from his butt pocket and handed it to his daughter.
"The apology gift given by the fifth prince said that I can take any of the famous items stored in the Zhaoxuefang warehouse."
Shen Yingying looked at the return slip in her hand and blinked, and there was another one??
Did Gu Yangjing guess that this immortal would use a blind trick to mislead others and only lend fake items, so he let so many ministers come to Zhaoxuefang to pick them up casually?
No, no, no, you can't assume the worst ill will about him. Although he is an eunuch, he is also an upright person! It should be just to make friends with the ministers.
So should I give it to the real one or to the fake one? If something goes wrong in the future, it will be a disgrace to Gu Yangjing!
Shen Yingying went through it in her mind. Within a few days of knowing Gu Yangjing, the guy had already used her as a tool many times.
Well! I decided to lend out the fake one!
Seeing her like that, Shen Wuhe waved his hand, "I'm your biological father! Don't fool me with lies!"
"I know." Shen Yingying twitched her lips and placed the return note on the red candle. The note was soon burned out.
Then, he took out another book from the drawer and turned to the page of the Governor's Mansion.
This is not the first time that Zhaoxuefang has helped people store their belongings. Precious and long-standing items can easily have ghosts attached to them because they are stored for a long time and absorb a lot of the essence of heaven and earth.
On the contrary, cheap and poor things are something that even ghosts don't care about.
Every time Shen Yingying helped someone exorcise ghosts, she would withhold some items for the sake of the owner's health. However, it was very rare for someone like Gu Yangjing to withhold so many items.
This is not nonsense! For someone like him to have more than a hundred ghosts on his body and still not die, it is simply a miracle in itself!
Wait, is it possible that Gu Yangjing is the future Human Emperor? Such a thought flashed through Shen Yingying's heart.
If this eunuch prince really becomes the crown prince in the future, I will have to be more polite to him in the future.
Those who are emperors in the human world will naturally become gods after death. If Gu Yangjing really becomes the human emperor and goes to heaven to become an immortal in the future, I wonder if he can prepare for this immortal for the sake of saving him many times. Leave one preparation.
Just as Shen Yingying was thinking about it, a gust of wind blew up and all the candles in the room went out.
"What's going on..." Shen Wuhe looked at the pitch-black room and his heart skipped a beat.
Another gust of wind came, and the candlelight in the room lit up again.
"Gulu——"
With a rustling sound, Liu Rushi's head rolled to the feet of the two of them. This chapter has been completed!