Volume 1 The Newlyweds Chapter 58: The Monk of Ming Kingdom and the Mysterious Skull
An hour later, Xue Junyou brought the square box back to the Crime Department, and he placed everything inside neatly on the case.
It is a very strange combination, a scarred skull, a cassock, and an ultimatum.
"There are so many things in the darkroom, you only brought out these few?" Feiyun stood in front of the case and looked at those things and asked.
"There are quite a lot of things."
Xue Junyou put his hands on the case and looked at what was in front of him carefully: "But most of them have special meaning to Concubine Gongsun Huang. When this storm is over, let the princess take them all back to the princess mansion."
"Are these things meaningless, or do they have other uses?"
While Feiyun was speaking, he reached out and picked up the skull he was holding and took a look at it. There were scratches and scratches of varying severity all over the skull, and it was obvious that it had been severely beaten.
Most importantly, the owner of this skull must have been miserable after death, because the most serious injury was caused by an axe-type heavy weapon, and there were more than one.
If there wasn't any deep hatred, he wouldn't have whipped the corpse like this.
"Can you see any clues?" Xue Junyou raised his head and asked Feiyun.
"Only the bones are left, so what clues can be seen."
Feiyun shook his head: "But it can be seen at a glance that the owner of this skull suffered inhumane torture before death."
"I can see this too."
Xue Junyou rolled his eyes at Feiyun, stretched out his hand to pick up the certificate, looked at the vaguely legible handwriting on it, and read it silently in his mind.
After reading it, Xue Jun felt a sense of filth in his heart.
"Monk from Ming Kingdom."
Xue Junyou threw away the ultimatum and said, "At least we can be sure that the owner of that cassock is a monk from Ming State."
"What about this skull?"
"The skull certainly isn't."
Xue Junyou's eyes were full of affirmation: "Although the people of Ming country are cruel and ruthless, they are quite respectful to gods and Buddhas. It is common for evil people to burn incense and worship Buddha. They will never torture monks like this."
"Then why do you want to keep this?"
"Two possibilities." Xue Junyou raised his head and replied:
"The first possibility is that this skull is the skull of an acquaintance of Concubine Gongsun. However, for some reason, it was in the hands of people from the Ming Kingdom. In the end, Concubine Gongsun spent a lot of effort to get it back from the Ming State.
And this ultimatum and cassock are both used as disguise.
The second possibility is that the skull and the cassock were both owned by the same owner, but they were not injured in the Ming Kingdom, but were captured and brought to the Entropy Kingdom, where they were severely tortured, and finally ended up in the hands of Concubine Gongsun Huang."
"Then which one do you think is most likely?" Feiyun put down the skull and asked.
Xue Junyou stretched out a finger: "Anyone from the Entropy Kingdom should know about the Dongming Rebellion twenty years ago, right?"
"Do you think this skull came twenty years ago?"
"Yes."
Xue Junyou nodded, seeming to remember something outrageous: "The Dongming Rebellion twenty years ago was too cruel and inhumane. Those Ming soldiers liked to use axes to chop off the heads of entropy people as firewood.
, so when I looked at the slash marks on the skull, I felt it was very similar to something that happened back then."
"What thing?" Feiyun asked.
"What happened after the loyal marquis Li Cong died for his country."
Xue Junyou stood up, with hatred in his eyes: "Dongjie City was the first to bear the brunt of the Dongming Rebellion, but after the Ming people massacred the city, they adopted the tactic of pretending to retreat and setting up an ambush secretly.
Two months later, the then general of the Entropy Kingdom, Zhonglie Hou Li Cong, led his troops to help. When the troops entered Dongjie City to station, they were suddenly ambushed. In the end, Zhonglie Hou died of exhaustion after fighting.
Since then, I have heard a legend that in order to commemorate that heroic and outstanding military exploits, the people of Ming State cut off the head of Marquis Zhonglie and planned to make a skull cup to present to their king."
"Then what?" Feiyun felt depressed as he listened. It was a huge shame to make the head of a country's general into a vessel!
"There is no more."
Xue Junyou shook his head: "These are the only rumors among the people. After all, the Ming people massacred more than 300,000 soldiers and civilians in Dongjiecheng. It's really hard to say whether any local people survived."
That's what he said, but the funny thing is that Xue Junyou is the one who survived, and he still has real memories.
"So you think this skull is the skull of Marquis Zhonglie who died in Dongzhou." Feiyun slowly put down the skull in his hand, with more respect in his manner than when he picked it up before: "Even if it is the skull of Marquis Zhonglie
, then why should my aunt be kept away as a royal concubine, and why not tell His Majesty?"
"Maybe... the reason is also the death of Imperial Concubine Gongsun."
Xue Junyou said, putting the skull and cassock back into the box: "Anyway, the owner of this skull suffered a lot of torture during his lifetime. He will go to the coffin shop another day and ask the shopkeeper to shape a clay body, and then bury him first.
Well... I checked carefully and found that this is just a skull, nothing else is hidden."
"You have a kind heart." Feiyun looked at Xue Junyou and said with a slight curl of the corners of his mouth: "I'm not afraid that this is really a Mingguo person. Don't you hate Mingguo people the most?"
"Yes and no."
Xue Junyou raised his head and mentioned the Ming people. There was still only hatred in his eyes: "I really wanted to kill them when I saw them, but... I killed them out of the hatred of exterminating my family back then.
, people only die once, I killed them directly to take revenge and torture them, then I am no different from the beasts like them.
In short, I am very happy to see them die, but if it is so miserable, it is better to let them bury them in their graves."
While the two were talking, Lu Li opened the door again and came in, still breathing heavily.
"That's great, Deputy Director. I thought you weren't here."
Xue Junyou's expression changed when he saw Lu Li barging in. Something must have happened again.
Sure enough - someone died again, in a medical clinic in Xicheng, with the same headless corpse as always, with the same tea flowers carved on the corpse.
... ... ...
Xue Junyou quickly changed into official uniform and rushed to the scene of the crime again, but this time Fei Yun did not follow him. After all, Fei Jue still had a maid of his mother who was unconscious.
Feiyun wanted to go back and pretend that it was Xue Junyou who led people into the secret hideout, rather than the fact that he, Feijue's next head of the family, also got involved.
A man came to the street where the medical clinic was located. There were already many people gathered in front of the door. Xue Junyou walked through the crowd and looked up at the plaque. He was quite familiar with this medical clinic. It was the same one that sent Wang Yanhui there that day.
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As soon as I entered with the token, I saw the old doctor and Wang Qinqin being questioned by the imperial guards.
"Brother Xue..."
Wang Qinqin obviously also saw Xue Junyou. After being questioned, he walked over to him to say hello.
Qin Qin's face didn't look very good, he had obviously seen the corpse.
"You... became an official?!" Seeing Xue Junyou wearing official official uniform, Wang Qinqin's face looked better.
"A small official."
Xue Junyou smiled. After he came out of prison, he had visited the brothers and sisters several times. Apart from Wang Yanhui needing to use a cane to move around, the life of the brothers and sisters was not too bad, not to mention Qin Qin was still alive.
Got a job to do.
As for their duties, Xue Junyou and Qin Qin exchanged some brief greetings before moving to the second floor of the post house.
On the corridor on the second floor, there were three rooms on the left and right, and the horrifying corpse lay lying at the end.
Blood stained the entire floor beneath him, and a large camellia flower was carved on his back.
"It's unexpected..."
Xue Junyou squatted in front of the corpse, frowning tightly. He originally planned to pick a day with Feiyun to lure out the woman related to Chang Longbo.
Unfortunately, before they were ready, they did such a terrible thing again, still in the hospital.
Wait, the hospital...
Xue Junyou seemed to have noticed something in his heart. Since it was a medical clinic, he must have come here for treatment. The old doctor must have seen what the deceased looked like.
Not long after, Wu Zuo walked out of another room, saw Xue Junyou squatting outside the door, and immediately bowed respectfully.
"Is it the same?"
Xue Junyou was too lazy to ask in detail. He just asked if the death method was the same as that of the previous deceased.
The man nodded: "Sir, it's the same, but..." Just as he said that, the man raised his hand, holding a document on it.
Xue Jun was worried for a while, but he was not surprised. After all, someone would definitely find out his appearance when he came here for treatment. He had dealt with the masked woman before, so naturally he knew that something would be found out, so he might as well just stay here
Drop a clue.
Just like the crossbows guarded by the Imperial Capital.
Xue Junyou opened the document, frowned, and said softly: "Wang Zheng, the lieutenant of Dongling County, Dongzhou... a high official."
Sure enough, it is still related to Donglinghou.
Xue Junyou thought clearly in his heart that Chang Longbo's family must have been killed by Dongling Marquis, and that the Cha Mihua corpse case must have been revenged by Chang Longbo's relatives.
But here comes the question. They are all local officials from Dongzhou. Why do they come to the imperial capital so often? Moreover, the case of the tea flower corpse first occurred ten years ago. In these ten years, more than thirty local officials came to the imperial capital privately.
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Thinking in his mind, Xue Junyou considered that Qin Qin was working in this medical center and wasting too much time would have a bad impact on the medical center, so he waved his hand to the worker and asked him to carry the body back first.
After giving the instructions, Xue Junyou walked into the room where Wu Zuo originally came out, which was exactly where the body was.
The room is not big and the furnishings are simple, with a cabinet, a chair and a bed.
Xue Junyou first opened the cabinet and took a look. There was nothing there. Then he lay down under the bed and looked again. It was so dark that he couldn't see clearly. He casually found a long object and took it out. It was nothing.
No.
Then Xue Junyou opened a few porcelain bottles randomly placed on the bedside and took a look, but was stunned when he opened them.
His eyes were stunned, and then he poured the bottle in his hand onto the quilt on the bed. It turned out to be several hard and thin pills mixed with soft and waxy pills.
If Xue Junyou hadn't found a few of them in Ning'an Palace before, he might not have been able to recognize them at a glance.