The once vivid life is only a stiff body; the once bright smile only looms in the memory.
When Cui Wan saw that Tan Qing was lying limp, he quickly grabbed him and helped him outside the woodshed. He immediately stretched out his thumb and clasped his remaining four fingers on his chin, pinching Tan Qing's middle.
Soon, Tan Qingyou woke up, the two of them looked at each other and couldn't help crying again, and it took a long time before they slowly stopped.
Qin Qing suddenly bowed to Zhang Wuhou Yingying: "Master Wuhou! We were so anxious just now that we had many conflicts, please forgive me. Senior Sister Cui and I, following the order of the temple master, wanted to bring Senior Sister Luo's body back and bury it as soon as possible.
, I wonder if that’s okay?”
Zhang Wuhou said: "The case is still under investigation, and the body is extremely important evidence. Moreover, it is impossible to do an autopsy without leakage. Repeated inspections are necessary to help solve the case. If there are clues to the case, the body of the deceased will be returned immediately.
The female Taoist Priest is just waiting for news from Wuhou Pu."
Cui Wan raised her eyebrows and said, "If you can't solve the case in one day, will Senior Sister Cui expose the body for one more day?"
Zhang Wuhou was at a loss for words for a while, and then replied after a long while: "I, Wuhou Pu, will work day and night to investigate with all my strength. If the female Taoist Priest still can't trust me, you can come to my Wuhou Pu to drink tea every day and see if my people are doing their best.
!”
Seeing Zhang Wuhou's unkind expression, Qin Qing hurriedly smoothed things over and said, "Master Wuhou, Sister Cui is also unscrupulous in what she says. Everyone in Luoyang City knows that Lord Wuhou is vigorous and resolute in investigating cases, and he is the most upright. Sister Luo's injustice depends on him."
Mr. Wuhou Zhaoxue."
After hearing this, Marquis Zhang Wu's face softened a little, and Qin Qing continued: "There is still something I want to ask Lord Wu for your permission."
Zhang Wuhou said in a deep voice: "Female Taoist Master, please speak. As long as it does not violate the laws of the Sheng Dynasty, we can consider it."
Qin Qing bowed again: "Now that the weather is getting warmer, Senior Sister Luo's body may not be able to withstand it. I would like to send someone to bring some ice cubes from the ice cellar at home every day to protect Senior Sister Luo's body so as to delay the decay of the body. Please
Mr. Wuhou is sympathetic!"
Zhang Wuhou nodded and said: "The fact that you have this intention shows that we have a deep friendship with each other, so I promise you. However, the person who delivers the ice cannot stay for a long time. After delivering the ice, he must leave immediately."
Qin Qing lowered his head and said, "This is natural, I will explain it clearly." He took off a purse from his waist and said, "Master Wuhou, please accept your kindness! It's hard to investigate the case, but you can have some wine and food to relieve your fatigue.
"
Zhang Wuhou glanced at her, but didn't take it and turned around and walked out of the backyard.
Cui Wan and Tan Qing saw that things were already like this and could not force themselves too much. They had no choice but to go out together and left Wuhou Pu sadly.
More than seventy bad guards, like sparrows, spread out along both sides of the Luoshui River, carefully searching for possible witnesses or physical evidence. As the time of the first day approached, the bad guards returned one after another. There were seventeen squares and cities on both sides of the Luoshui River.
Eleven of them have been checked, but nothing has been found.
At the end of the second day, the bad guards returned again and carefully explored the remaining six cities, but still no useful clues were obtained.
Zhang Wuhou looked at the tired-looking guards in front of him and knew that what they said was true. At this time, it could be preliminarily determined that the place where the criminals detained Luo Rou must not be along the Luoshui River. Instead, after being tortured, they waited for an opportunity to throw Luo Rou into the river.
Luoshui, causing his death.
Zhang Wuhou slapped his hand heavily on the table: "Since the place of murder is not on both sides of Luoshui River, you will expand the search area to the north and south.
Chang Si, Lu Da, Gao Mazi, and Fatty Tian, the four of you discuss, in addition to the seventeen cities that have been explored, allocate other cities in the city, arrange a team of two, change shifts day and night, continue to explore. Find.
Please report any clues at any time."
After hearing this, all the bad guards responded with clasped fists.
At 2:30 on the morning of the third day, two bad guards were investigating in Lidefang and picked up a flower ingot from the dry ditch outside the Zoroastrian Temple, which was suspected to be something worn on the head of the deceased.
At around 3:00 in the afternoon, two more unscrupulous guards picked up a bamboo sword in the grass of the Huijiefang Zoroastrian Temple, which was suspected to be the sword worn by the deceased.
Zhang Wuhou hurriedly sent people to Linji Temple to summon Xu Meixiang, Feng Yizi of the prison, as well as Cui Wan and Qin Qing. They identified the things on the spot and confirmed that they were the belongings of the deceased.
Xu Meixiang and other female Taoist priests were feeling sad after seeing things and thinking about people. Two more bad guards came back and took out an embroidered shoe from the cloth bag in their hands. They reported that they found it in the Xiuxianfang Zoroastrian Temple.
When "Mage" (priest) confronted him, a conflict almost broke out.
When Cui Wan saw the embroidered shoes, he snatched them away without any explanation and burst into tears like pearls.
The two bad guards were about to go up and take it back, but they were stopped by Zhang Wuhou: "Female Taoist Priests, the dead are gone, the living should pity you! Now that the evidence has been confirmed, you may go to the backyard to take a look.
If she is, I will send someone to send you back to see her."
Xu Meixiang, Cui Wan, and Qin Qing nodded silently, and then, led by the two bad guards, they went to the backyard woodshed to see Luo Rou's body, then boarded the carriage and went back to watch.
Zhang Wuhou had mixed emotions. It had been two days since the incident, and the investigation had yielded no results, which doubled his pressure.
However, today, these physical evidence clues appeared all at once, as if they had been discussed, and were scattered throughout Luoyang City. The only strange thing is that these physical evidences were all found in the Zoroastrian Temple, which is a bit of a coincidence.
Everyone in Luoyang City knows that the Zoroastrian Temple is the place where Zoroastrian believers conduct their activities. This may be a frame-up of Zoroastrianism. But it may also be that there is a scum in Zoroastrianism, and they use their identity as a believer to throw out these physical evidence to attract the attention of bad guards.
From the imperial court to the public gate of Luoyang, because of the Sogdian people's "nine surnames of Zhaowu", these Western Region religious sects have always been vigilant. If we want to seize these physical evidences and trace them down, we will inevitably have conflicts with Zoroastrianism.
Friction was not conducive to the maintenance of the image of a great power in the prosperous dynasty as "all nations worshiped the crown". Therefore, regardless of whether the case was related to Zoroastrianism, the perpetrators were emboldened and openly provocative, which made Marquis Zhang Wu extremely angry.
After getting angry, Zhang Wuhou gradually regained his senses. If we extrapolate from this, it is no accident that Luo Rou's body appeared in Luoshui. It is most likely that the murderer did it deliberately.
These criminals were cruel and smart. They didn't seem to mind Wuhou Pu and Bad Wei getting the evidence. Instead, they showed off their tactics and followed the temptation, throwing out seemingly useful clues one after another. Then they watched them like a cat playing with a mouse.
Trapped between a rock and a hard place, helpless, enjoying such a bad taste.
Zhang Wuhou has been investigating cases for many years, and he has never felt this frustrated before:
If no clues can be found, the case will be difficult to make progress. Now that several clues have been found, the case has become even more confusing!
The whole case is more like a trap, waiting for more people to fall into it, so that they can all be caught in one fell swoop. It is like an invisible hand, a force so huge that it is difficult to shake, lurking behind everyone, secretly controlling everything.
On the fourth day like this, the tentacles of Wuhou's bad guards suddenly covered the 112 districts of Luoyang City! Not only were the bad guards sent by Zhang Wuhou, but also Wuhou from other six districts.
Scatter all the bad guards away and start looking for clues that you care about.
Because, after Luoyang City fell silent for more than a month, another woman disappeared inexplicably. It was exactly the same as before: there was no trace of her body and she seemed to have disappeared from the world!
And this woman is none other than Chen Wanglu, the Shaoyin of the Henan Prefecture and the third young lady of the Chen Prefecture.
Chen Shaoyin was so furious that he summoned all the Wuhous from Zeshan, Luxin, Luobin, Ningren, Daohua and more than a dozen other cities to the palace and cursed them bloody.
Although a month ago, it was Chen Shaoyin who advocated closing the case of the missing woman hastily to calm people's hearts. But now and then, the matter fell on him, so he didn't care much and sent someone to bring out the case file.
, check again.
At that time, a row of Wuhou stood at the bottom, listening to his loud curses. No one dared to offend him except for slander. After receiving the scolding, several Wuhou acted surprisingly quickly and uniformly.
Nearly a thousand unscrupulous guards in the city spread out like worker ants, carefully exploring all parts of the city with the tenacity of digging three feet into the ground.
And many unscrupulous handsome men and unscrupulous guards also rarely put aside their past grievances and exchange news, just to find Miss Chen's third daughter as soon as possible.
The "Luoshui Floating Corpse Case" in Zhang Wuhou's hands has not yet been solved, and he is forced to be involved in the resurrected "Missing Woman Case". Apart from working hard and investigating day and night, he can only smile bitterly:
In the past few days, Xu Meixiang, a son of Feng Yi, and Ding Mo Niang, a son of Xueyi, from Linji Guan Prison have been arriving every day, urging him to inquire about the investigation of the case and trying to get Luo Rou's body back.
Ding Moniang was modest and reasonable, but Xu Meixiang was a famous "crazy woman" in Luoyang Taoist circles. She often quarreled with Zhang Wuhou before even saying a few words, and finally broke up unhappy.
Although Luoyang Gongmen’s extensive investigation could not yield immediate results, it was not all in vain:
An anonymous flower-picking thief was accidentally caught by a bad guard and beaten to death on the spot;
On weekdays, he wandered around the streets, stealing and stealing, and several people were detained;
Many libertines who bullied the market were also charged with various crimes and taken back to the prisons of various Wuhoupu...
For a time, the rivers and seas in Luoyang City were singing and dancing, and the atmosphere of the peaceful world was faintly revealed.
On the day he received the letter from Yuan Yizi Tong Chunxi, Gongsun Zhenren sent Ming Lingzi Zhuo Songtao and Yulingzi Huang Shuo to follow Fang Qidou, Luo Rou and his wife all the way down Cuiyun Peak and towards Luoyang City.
In the Xuanyuan Hall of Linjiguan, although Tong Chunxi was sad in his heart, he still held back his tears and met Zhuo Songtao and Huang Shuo who had hurriedly arrived.
After some pleasantries, the conversation got down to business. Zhuo Songtao cupped his hands and said: "Master Tong, Junior Sister Luo suffered this disaster because of fate! Please forgive yourself to avoid depression and illness.
My temple master Gongsun Zhenren said that he has been busy with a matter at hand and will come over in the near future. Junior brother Huang and I are the first to go ahead and let the temple master Tong send us!"
Tong Chunxi nodded and said: "I was very upset when I heard the bad news last night. Now that I think about it, it may have disturbed Master Gongsun Temple's Qingxiu. It will get late today, so I will arrange for you two to stay here."
At this time, the female Taoist priest Zhike came over and reported: "Wei Chiyuan, the master of Hongdao Temple, came to visit and said he had something important to tell me."
Tong Chunxi nodded and said, "Please come in."
After a few breaths, Yuchi Yuan walked in quickly. After a cursory greeting, he said: "Junior Sister Yuan Yizi! What happened to Junior Brother Luo... I'm afraid it's not human, I'm afraid it's a monster causing trouble!"
Tong Chunxi's expression changed slightly: "Brother Yuchi! Where do you start talking about this? Have you already met my...short-lived disciple..."
Yu Chiyuan solemnly said: "It was also a mistake. Last night, I was suddenly called by Marquis Zhang Wu, saying that he was going to save the souls of the dead and prevent the corpse from transforming. Most of the deceased involved in the case were violent deaths. This is not the first time Brother Yu has dealt with it, so it is not surprising.
But when I went in, I saw that the person lying on the corpse was actually my nephew! I felt so sad that I couldn't help myself! However, upon investigation, I found that one of the three souls of Luo's nephew had been lost! It was speculated that the technique was completely different.
My Taoist soul-breaking method is actually a bit like the demon clan's 'soul-breaking' method!"
After Zhuo Songtao heard this, he suddenly interjected: "Master Yuchi, if your speculation is true, this matter is probably very difficult! When Wu Tianshi was a guest in my temple, he once mentioned the demon clan's magic, which is quite good in Taoism.
Taoist priests and monks are also invincible."
Tong Chunxi said sadly: "If this is true, no matter whether they are monsters or murderers, I will give up this body and kill them all to do justice for heaven!"
Yuchi Yuan's old eyes were clear: "Junior sister Yuan Yizi, there is no need to rush to death together. Since I came here, I already have some ideas in my mind, and I want to discuss it with you first before we can finalize the charter!"
Tong Chunxi's eyes also glowed: "Brother Yuchi, I hope you will give me some advice..."