Ji Hongye looked at her awkward little appearance, and inexplicably felt funny. In the final analysis, after all, he is still young, and he has a childlike heart, and he is connived at ruthlessly. Ji Hongye leaned over, stretched out his long arms, and scooped her into his arms.

"What are you doing?" Nalan Jinxiu looked at him vigilantly, the space is so small, and he is a person with a criminal record, what if he kisses her again?

Ji Hongye wanted to kiss her a little, but compared to scaring her, he was still willing to endure it. After last time, she hid from him for a long time, and he thought that he would be her third brother for the time being, and as for the rest, he would wait until marriage and then cultivate it slowly.

He suppressed the thoughts in his heart, rubbed her head, and said calmly: "Isn't it stupid? I was going to the Criminal Department, but you had to let me go to the ceremony, and I didn't have time to change my clothes, so I naturally had to wear an official uniform." ”

Nalan Jinxiu: "......"

"It's not what I want to do to mess with those girls. ”

Nalan Jinxiu nodded, feeling that the third brother was explaining to her. Who knew that he then said: "It's not because of the official uniform, the beauty is natural, and there is no way." ”

"......" Nalan Jinxiu met his smiling eyes, realized that he had been tricked, and pounced on him to bite his shoulder.

Ji Hongye had a pain in her shoulder, this girl really bitten. He staggered away with a slight force and escaped from her mouth. Then he reached out and clasped her two hands, placed them on top of her head, and looked at her with a deep gaze.

"You...... What are you doing?" she was on guard.

What did he want to do? Of course he wanted to kiss her. However, Ji Xiaobai and Long Yi outside the car have very good ears, and he doesn't have a hobby of letting people listen to the corner. Ji Hongye endured the turbulence in his body and pulled her into his arms.

Nalan Jinxiu struggled a few times, and was tightly circled by him, he lowered his head and pecked her ear, and said in a dumb voice: "Don't move." ”

As soon as Nalan Jinxiu heard the tone of his speech, she didn't dare to move. Ji Hongye hugged her for a while before letting go, and stuffed the book into her hand, really ready to let her read to him.

Nalan Jinxiu had no choice but to read to him one by one: "Guan Guan Ju Dove, in the river island, fair lady, gentleman is good......"

Her voice was crisp and refreshing, with a little bit of glutinousness. Ji Hongye's eyes gradually smiled, my fair lady, good gentleman...... This girl, narcissistic can be.

After that, the two of them were quite safe along the way, one was studying, and the other was leaning on the couch and closing his eyes to recuperate, and no one provoked anyone again.

When the criminal department arrived, Ji Hongye put on the cloak and hat for Nalan Jinxiu and covered it tightly. She didn't know what the third brother's intentions were, so he took them all the way to the mortuary of the Criminal Department.

Nalan Jinxiu found that she was going in the direction of the underground, and the more she walked inside, the more cold she felt, so she leaned towards Ji Hongye's side. Ji Hongye took her hand and said in a low voice: "There is something I want you to see, you ...... Are you afraid?"

"What's that?"

"Dead people. ”

Dead man! Nalan Jinxiu's body stiffened, and the good third brother took her to see what the dead man was doing? She is a person who practices medicine, and has diagnosed and treated many dying patients, but no one likes to look at dead people! She looked at him puzzled.

Ji Hongye sighed: "It's a little tricky. ”

It must be a very difficult situation to make the third brother say this, she turned her head sideways and asked, "What do you want me to see?"

"I couldn't find out the cause of death. What Ji Hongye thought was that she even knew something as obscure as the Nether Flower, and maybe she could provide some clues.

However, he was really a little worried about letting such a little girl come to the autopsy, afraid that she would be afraid. But he felt in his heart that his Ah Jin was not an ordinary woman, and under his protection, she should have a wider world.

Nalan Jinxiu didn't think too much, just thinking that if she could help the third brother, it would be the best. She scratched his palm with her fingers and said with a smile, "Then go in." ”

The cause of death could not be determined, and the corpses that had not yet been solved were put into the ice cellar. The ice cellar was cold, and the nine coffins lined up made the cellar even more gloomy.

The coffin had no lid, and Nalan Jinxiu approached to see a female corpse without skin lying inside. The absence of skin meant nothing, it was a bloody patch as far as the eye could see, and some white flesh, which was horrible and disgusting.

Nalan Jinxiu continued to walk forward, still in the second coffin, and then the third and fourth...... They were all young women without skin. Why can you judge the age just by looking at it in a hurry, because all the victim women have extremely beautiful hair.

Nalan Jinxiu frowned: "How can there be so many?"

Ji Hongye shook his head: "One a day." ”

"What?"

"Every day, there is a female corpse, and it happens in Jinling City. ”

"How so?"

"Coming at me. ”

Isn't it for Master Ji? Every morning, a human skin lantern hangs on the palace gate, and then a female corpse will be found. This case is also strange, the palace is strict, but someone hangs the lantern every night, and no one finds it.

Emperor Yonglong was a generous character, and when he heard this, he was furious, and he didn't let him take the lantern, so he let the civil and military officials look up and down. This case is supposed to be transferred to Dali Temple, but Ji Hongye, the youngest minister, has long been in the limelight. Now that no one knows about the civil and military affairs of the Manchu Dynasty, no one can break the case that Ji Shangshu can't break. Therefore, as soon as the case broke out, Emperor Yonglong directly assigned it to him, and asked the three divisions to cooperate with each other and solve the case wholeheartedly.

Everyone wanted to see who dared to do such a thing under the nose of the Holy Lord and create panic in the palace. Now the news is still blocked, but everyone in the palace is in danger, and they always feel that their lives are not guaranteed. The march was heavily defended and the brocade guards took turns on duty, and the guards were tight, but they could not settle down.

When the civil and military officials went to the court, they were all sincerely afraid, and the commander of the forbidden army personally guarded it yesterday, and the human skin lantern was still there, and it was hung at the gate of the palace without knowing it. The palace can't be prevented, and the detection outside is also making no progress.

The case has been nine days, nine lanterns have been placed in the criminal department, and Ji Hongye found out for the first time that manpower is limited and he has no clue at all. He needs to find out the cause of these women's deaths as soon as possible and sort out the ins and outs.

The more Nalan Jinxiu listened, the more she felt that this matter was not trivial, no wonder the third brother had to wear official clothes for a banquet. That is, he has always been calm, and he still has the heart to tease her, if it were someone else, I am afraid that he would have been anxious a long time ago. Faced with such a skinned corpse, Nalan Jinxiu was a little scared. But when she thought of the third brother's situation, she was not afraid, she asked calmly: "Can you do it?"

"In. ”

"Tell me about the results of your autopsy. ”

As this old man who is over fifty years old, he has been doing this business for some years, and I am afraid that in the entire Jinling City, it is impossible to find a second person who is more experienced than him. He saw that the woman was very young, but she was very imposing. In addition, Master Ji answered all her questions, so he naturally respected her in his heart, and he shook his head and said: "Girl Hui, none of these nine salted fish have fatal injuries on their bodies, and their organs are intact, so I really don't know why they died." ”

Nalan Jinxiu put on his gloves, flipped the nearest corpse, and asked, "Where is the skin, how did you peel it off?"

The little officials present were all frightened, and they looked at such a delicate little girl, turning the terrifying corpse. Her voice was smooth and cold, and because of the cold, her face was slightly pale, and in this environment, she was a little creepy.

Ji Hongye also put on a big hat before entering the ice cellar, and seeing that she was a little cold, he took it off and put it on her body. Everyone looked at her strangely and accepted it happily, and turned her head sideways to say to Master Ji, "Thank you, third brother." ”

They felt that this woman should also excuse herself, after all, the ice cellar was so cold, and Master Ji took off her big hat and was thinly dressed. They were all dressed so thickly that their hands were about to freeze. Isn't she afraid that Master Ji will be cold?

The injury on Nalan Jinxiu's back was not completely healed, and her body was still very weak, and she couldn't tolerate the cold. She and the third brother have the same heart, and their thoughts are naturally the same.

In the end, he was old and well-informed, bowed slightly, and spoke clearly: "It's raw peeling, definitely not mercury." ”

She had seen in ancient books that she buried people in the earth, used a dagger to make a cross knife on the top of the head, poured mercury, and the mercury went down, and the skin and flesh were naturally separated. Although this is true, as a doctor, she thinks it is unreasonable.

She flipped through the corpses under her hands, examined them carefully, and said slowly, "Cut from the back, from top to bottom, and then peel the person out of the skin." That's right, in order to ensure the elasticity of human skin, it is easier to separate it from the meat, so it must be peeled raw. ”

Nalan Jinxiu's voice was too calm, which made the attitude of the servant more and more respectful. But there is one thing he has never figured out, he was skinned raw, why people did not struggle, but were very cooperative.

Nalan Jinxiu was the same as he thought, no matter how it was clamped, it was peeling, how could it be completed in such a complete way, without leaving the slightest trace. She really wanted to see the eyes of the deceased, for no reason, she just wanted to look. When she thought of this, she really opened the eyes of the deceased. The eyes can reflect her emotions at the time of death, and she is sure that the person will die without fear, pain, or even comfort.

"I've had an autopsy for so many years and I've never seen such a weird salted fish. "He looked very cautious, and he really had no clue.

"It's an illusion. Nalan Jinxiu said leisurely.

"Hallucinations?"

Nalan Jinxiu lowered her head and thought for a while, and then organized her language before saying: "Since the victim did not struggle and looked very much like euthanasia, it is possible that hallucinogenic drugs were used, and people did not even feel pain, this is the only reasonable explanation." ”

Everyone felt unbelievable when they heard it, how could there be such a medicine in the world? But Ji Hongye believed that what she said was true, the world is so big, no matter how incredible things are, it is possible to happen.