Volume 1: The Newlyweds Chapter 49: Murder on the first day of taking office
After hearing Feiyun's words, Xue Jun was secretly happy in his heart.
Just as he was about to take Feiyun back to the princess mansion, he heard a rush of footsteps coming from outside.
The two immediately fell silent simultaneously. Soon, Lu Li panicked and shouted outside the door: "Deputy Secretary, something happened!"
"What's the matter?" Xue Junyou asked through the door, looking at the black figure outside.
"There was a murder two miles outside the imperial capital."
"If there is a murder case, go to the Imperial Capital Mansion."
Xue Junyou frowned. The Crime Department of the Ministry of Punishment investigates the unresolved cases handed over to the Ministry of Punishment. It is not an ordinary official job.
"But this murder case is related to the tea flower corpse case handed over to you."
Lu Li responded urgently from outside: "The chief sent someone just now and asked you to go over and take a look."
"knew."
Xue Junyou sighed softly. Halfway through his words, he turned to Feiyun who was not far from the door. When he saw him nodding, he added: "I'll be there right away."
After a while, Lu Li left. Xue Junyou frowned and quickly rummaged through the desk to find the summary of the crime that Lu Li had given him before.
Before, he had focused his attention on the fire in Prince Nanyun's Mansion, and had never seen the Flower Corpse Case. No one knew that the deceased appeared so quickly.
"You don't even know about this?"
Looking at Xue Junyou who was busy at the moment, Feiyun suddenly said: "It seems that the Ninth Prince Consort is not too familiar with matters in the imperial capital."
"You know?" After hearing his words, Xue Junyou looked at him doubtfully.
The corners of Feiyun's lips curled up slightly: "Everyone in the imperial capital knows."
"Then first tell me something that everyone in the imperial capital knows."
Xue Junyou said while rummaging through a pile of files: "When I find it, I will just look at what the people in the capital don't know."
"There is nothing that people in the Imperial City don't know about this case. You might as well take me there directly. I am well versed in assassination techniques and may be of some help to you."
Feiyun's face looked a little eager to try. He liked killing people, and he liked watching dead people even more. For such criminals who even the government could not catch, looking at the other party's methods would sometimes be more conducive to becoming a qualified assassin.
"you?"
Xue Junyou raised his head, as if thinking that Fei Jue was in the human life business in the world, and that it might actually be helpful: "Well, I can't go back to the princess mansion for the time being, so you can come over and help me first."
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The official carriage of the Crime Department of the Criminal Department quickly drove out of the Crime Department.
On the carriage, Xue Junyou got an idea from Feiyun.
The tea flower corpse case first appeared ten years ago. When I heard about Xue Junyou ten years ago, I got a headache. It seemed that everything happened ten years ago.
However, judging from the description of this case, it should have nothing to do with Ma Jiu or Dongling Hou, because this has always been an unsolved case. The murderer has been committing crimes for ten years, but has never been caught, or even seen.
The only clue is that the murder scene contains a headless corpse and a tea flower carved with a sword.
"Nine Prince Consort."
At this moment, Fei Yun's voice came to Xue Junyou's ears: "I advise you not to pursue this case. Professional officials will not be able to solve it in ten years, let alone you who are gold-plated."
"I don't like hearing that."
Xue Junyou opened his eyes and couldn't help but reply to him: "In my position, I seek my own government, do you understand? I'm not here to eat for free."
"It doesn't matter whether you eat or not."
Feiyun waved his hand, and the words in his mouth were even more ruthless: "You prince-in-laws, haven't you been called talented people who eat free money for thousands of years? You still eat the salary of several high-ranking officials, and you still care about such a small official?"
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"Then why didn't you come here to persuade me earlier?" Xue Junyou frowned. He didn't like hearing this, even though what others said was correct.
"Because I also want to see what kind of person is able to hide it from the government for ten years. I guess this kind of person's methods must be very hidden."
After Feiyun finished speaking, she turned around and lifted the curtains to look out the window. At this moment, it was no longer streets and lanes, but a vast expanse of withered grass covered with silver snow.
After a while, a thatched house built in a large field of withered grass gradually appeared in front of us.
The carriage also stopped slowly in front of the courtyard.
Xue Junyou jumped off the carriage, and Feiyun pretended to be his subordinates and followed closely. The wind outside the imperial capital was very strong, and the heavy snow that fell yesterday mixed with fine gravel scratched his face, which was somewhat painful.
Outside the fence gate of the house, several imperial guards stared at the two of them, and Xue Junyou took out the crime commander card to them.
"This time seems different from usual." Feiyun looked around and suddenly said.
Xue Junyou also knew what he meant. Xue Junyou had almost understood it just now on the carriage. In the past ten years, there have been thirty-seven cases of tea flower corpse cases, and not one of the thirty-seven cases has happened.
It happened in the imperial capital, and it was all in a big house. It had never happened in such a simple place.
"This is obviously a foreigner, or someone who knows the murderer and was invited here."
Xue Junyou put away the token and smelled a pungent fishy smell as soon as he entered the house. He thought it had been there for a while. He waved his hand in front of him: "I am really guilty. On the first day I took office,
Hit this thing."
"You don't want to vomit, do you?"
There was a smile on Feiyun's face, as if he suddenly remembered something, and then he said again: "Oh, look at my memory, the Ninth Prince Consort killed a bully not long ago, so he shouldn't vomit when he sees a dead person."
"You suddenly become much more cheerful." Xue Junyou said angrily.
Feiyun didn't take it seriously: "That's because I have developed the ability to kill people, but I have nowhere to use it. I can only enjoy it for a while."
While the two were talking, they walked into the innermost room together. This was an ordinary back room, with a Tukang, a set of tables and chairs, and apart from that, there was only a headless corpse under the Tukang.
"Look at his left arm." Feiyun's face was expressionless, and he tilted his head and glanced at Xue Junyou.
"Saw it."
Xue Junyou nodded: "Cha Mihua, the carving looks quite similar."
At this moment, a burst of footsteps came from behind them. Judging from their clothes, they might be a fake.
"Two adults."
The police officer couldn't tell who was the deputy director of the Crime Department, Xue Junyou or Fei Yun, so they bowed to each other: "I am the police officer of the Imperial Capital Prefecture. I am here to wait for you two adults by order of the Imperial Capital Prefect."
"Um."
Xue Junyou replied, with a bit of official authority on his face: "Tell us about it."
"yes."
The man nodded and looked at the corpse: "The governor of the Imperial Capital has an order that the crime department is not allowed to touch the corpse before he comes, so I just took a rough look."
"It is a male corpse, six feet four inches long, slightly fat, without a shirt, and wearing official boots. Nothing was found on his body."
"The body was lying prone, and there were no signs of struggle around it. The villain believes that it was killed with a single knife, and he was suddenly attacked from behind by the criminal in an unprepared state."
After finishing his words, Xue Junyou looked at Feiyun: "Do you think so too?"
"I'm not as careful as he is. After all, he is a gangster."
Feiyun's eyes were fixed on the wound as big as a porcelain bowl: "But it is true that he was killed with one knife, and the opponent's martial arts was so strong that he swung the weapon in his hand and killed him directly at the moment he noticed it.
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"Is it a trick of people in the world of martial arts?"
Hearing Xue Junyou's question, Feiyun immediately showed a troubled look on his face. He seemed to think that the other party was deliberately making things difficult for him, so he said: "Jianghu sects have many moves, not to mention such a corpse. As long as you have some strength, you can quickly and accurately strike at a moment."
If you start, anyone can cause the scene in front of you."
"That's true."
After Xue Junyou finished speaking, seeing that there was nothing he could do about the corpse lying around, he ordered Wu Zuo to find a few people to carry it away.
In the time it took to light up the tea room, there was only a large puddle of dried blood left in the whole room, and only Xue Junyou and the others were left.
"You looked wrong just now."
Xue Junyou looked at Feiyun again: "I have called everyone out this time. If you have anything to say, just say it."
Feiyun said bluntly: "It was not a killing with a knife, but a killing with a sword. Most people can't tell what the murder weapon was from the wound, but I have been proficient in various weapons since I was a child, and I can tell that the murderer used a sword."
"With a sword?"
Xue Junyou seemed to suddenly remember something, and immediately squatted on the ground and sniffed around the blood stain, and sniffed very carefully.
Feiyun looked at it and frowned: "Can't you smell such a strong smell of blood?"
"no."
Xue Junyou stood up slowly: "When you just said that you should be quick and accurate, I could not help but think of a person in my mind. As for using a sword, my impression of her was even deeper."
"Who is it?" Feiyun asked.
"A person I met not long ago."
Xue Junyou was naturally talking about the woman in black he met when he went to the place he had arranged with the Crown Prince to get back the wooden box. She drew her sword very fast at that time, and she stabbed the victim during the day very accurately at night.
of injury.
Xue Junyou also smelled it carefully just now, and there was indeed a pungent herbal smell hidden in the thick smell of blood.
It should be certain that she was right, but why, why did she steal the two letters left by Concubine Gongsun in the wooden box, and why did she keep killing people.
"Um?"
While thinking in his mind, Xue Junyou suddenly saw that the earthen kang next to the blood stain was a little out of place. When he was in the Taoist temple, his teacher built the earthen kang, so he naturally knew something about it.
"There's something wrong with this earthen kang."
Xue Junyou pointed at the place where he felt it was inconsistent: "The soil here is a bit thick. It was obviously applied later."
Bang!
Before he finished speaking, Feiyun kicked him down.
It was hollow, and a few bricks mixed with soil were poured in, throwing out thick dust. Xue Junyou looked at Feiyun in surprise.
Feiyun stretched out his hands, and the expression on his face seemed to say that it would be faster.
Xue Junyou glanced at him, sighed softly, squatted down and looked in. Before he could see the full picture inside, a pungent smell rushed straight into his nose.
After just one glance inside, he immediately stood up and covered his nose tightly.
"Someone is coming!"
Xue Junyou's whole face seemed to be darkened. He called two imperial officials who were guarding the door outside and said, "Please find more people and come here. There are still corpses inside."