At this time, Zhuoxin, who was supposed to rush to the Taishou Mansion, suddenly stopped and turned back and walked back. How smart she was, she saw a piece of paper passed to her by Chu Cheng early on the next page of the document that Chu Cheng handed her just now.

The refugee center in the north of the city, in fact, is also very strange, why these originally missing children were originally refugees from different displacements, but they all appeared in the refugee center recently, she knew that Chu Cheng had something to say to her, but because there were other people in the household department just now, he didn't tell her.

"The Burning Heart Protector is back."

"Chu Shangshu has also learned to sell Guanzi."

"If you don't sell it, how can you detect the ability of the Dharma Protector."

"So, now Lord Shangshu is willing to tell the truth?"

"Although the settlement of the missing children cannot be traced at present, almost all of them have stayed in one place, which is the abandoned refugee center in the north of the city, and I think that if the Dharma Protector goes to the Taishou Mansion now, even if there are any clues, they will be erased by the Taishou sooner. It's better to try your luck and go to the refugee shelter, maybe you can find clues. ”

"I wonder why Lord Shangshu is so sure of all the clues about the refugees?"

"It's not that I'm sure, and I didn't prepare to talk to the Dharma Protector, but I just had a chance that the Dharma Protector came, and I thought that the Dharma Protector was an upright person, so I just casually mentioned it."

"Adults are really good at beating around the bush, so the burning heart will not be accompanied."

"Congratulations, sir." Sending her away with a meaningful smile, Chu Cheng only realized Xiao Liangyun's means and foresight at this time, a qualified and excellent strategist should be prepared for all the possibilities of things, and it was obvious that she was completely compliant.

The refugee shelter in the north of the city was already an abandoned wasteland, with houses that had not been completely demolished, the eaves were drooping and crumbling, and in some places there was a thick layer of cobwebs, and the dilapidated stools, accompanied by sparse dirt and rags, were searching little by little with a burning frown, but nothing was found.

Obviously, there was no one left here, but strangely enough, the refugee lived in a much smaller place than the place where she moved, and soon she was in a reed swing. The reeds connected a river, and several waterfowl flew in the air, and the waterfowl quacked.

Feeling that there was no gain, she was just about to go back, but she tripped under her feet, and when she looked down, she found a white flower thing exposed in the soil. Not far away, a waterfowl was squatting, staring at her.

Suspicious and uneasy, she pulled out the sword at her waist and pushed away the unexpectedly soft soil. A bone that looked like a leg bone was exposed, and her expression gradually became solemn, and then she used her sword to cut off a piece of reeds around her, and soon, the pubic bone, tail vertebrae, skull, more and more bones were exposed.

The remnant sun is like blood, and the reeds that pierce it are inexplicably painful.

"Back to the Protector! A total of 39 bodies were found, 21 of which were children and 18 were women. A man in a soldier's uniform clenched his fists and reported to Zhuoxin, who was standing nearby.

"Well, let the coroner come and talk to me."

"Yes!"

Soon, a thin old man in a white robe slowly stepped forward and bowed slightly, "Mo Lao." ”

"Back to the Protector of the Dharma, after the old man examined the thirty-nine corpses, some of the corpses have been completely ossified, and the other part has been eaten by insects and birds, and it can be analyzed from the corpses that have been ossified, the time of death of these corpses was half a year to two years ago, and the corpses that were not ossified died for about three months to May, and one body should have died in the last few days." After speaking, he waved his hand, and the subordinate stepped forward with a stretcher covered with a white cloth, and the old man lifted the white cloth, and the corpse in front of him was Su Yuan.

"This young female corpse gives us many clues, and it is clear that she was subjected to extremely brutal abuse during her lifetime, such as being poisoned, abused, whipped, choked, pricked, cut, whipped, and toyed with multiple wounds. Based on the girl's body, it can be deduced that the time of death was within the last week, but the old man also found something on the body. After speaking, Mo Lao trembled and pulled out a silver needle, and then said. Look. ”

The silver needle was slowly inserted into the base of the girl's thigh, and after slowly rotating it for a circle and a half, it was pulled out, and the bottom of the silver needle immediately turned black and purple.

"Poisoned?"

"To be exact, it is greatly related to the current epidemic, generally speaking, ordinary silver needles will appear black and purple if they are poisoned, but the old man found that there is a layer of oil similar to white floating on the edge of the black and purple silver needles, the old man didn't know what it was, but two days ago, the doctors of the Tai Hospital issued a notice, and all the dead epidemic patients on the notice are purple in their faces, and their blood is purple and there is white oil secretion on the epidermis."

"Look what's over there!" Suddenly, one of the guards shouted and pointed to the stone pier in front of the reed pond, and everyone looked over and found a white cloth bag on the stone pier.

Unwrap the cloth bag, and the bag contains a piece of letter paper, a prescription, and a taste of medicinal herbs.

"Dear Burning Heart Protector, when you see this, congratulations on having obtained a part of the truth about this incident, and I will also fulfill my promise to present the first prescription to our esteemed majesty, and this prescription will be handed over to the Tai Hospital, and the Tai Hospital will check whether my prescription is correct. But of course, this can only solve the problem of mild patients who are partially relieved, and severe patients still have no way to detoxify. Then I won't talk nonsense, I'll put the second flavor prescription for you in the second place, I don't think I need to say anything else, you should know where this second place is. Then according to the old rules, this time the time is cut in half, and we will see you tomorrow afternoon before the sun goes down, good luck. ”

"What is this, it has no head or tail, my lord! From the perspective of subordinates, it is better to wait here, or go directly to the Taishou Mansion to arrest and interrogate the Taishou, and interrogate him for two days without believing that he doesn't know! ”

"Idiot! What do you know? What's the use of interrogating him? He is just a piece of garbage, and the key now is how to solve the epidemic and put the people first, otherwise it will be useless for him to die a thousand times or ten thousand times. With a flick of the sword, the sword was plunged into the face of the mouthy guard, and it was an inch away.

"Yes! Be! Be! The subordinates are stupid, please protect the Dharma and punish them! ”

"Get up and go to the Taishou Mansion." With a cold glance, the guard immediately retreated, and then she led a small group of people to the Taishou Mansion. For her, there is no time limit for handling the case, even if it is almost night, for her to hurry up and finish.

The area around the Taishou Mansion was almost surrounded by Helian Qian's Praetorian Guards, and as soon as he walked to the door, he smelled a strong smell of medicine, some pungent and some unpleasant. People who came in and out wore veils and wrapped themselves tightly.

"Slave, slave to participate in the Dharma Protector." An old housekeeper dressed plainly walked over, the quality of the clothes was not a problem, in line with the identity of a housekeeper, but the jade pendant on his body was a little strange.

"Hmm."

"Oops, hey, stop!" When he arrived at the main gate of the Taishou Mansion, he was suddenly stopped by someone, and he raised his head with a frown.

The head of the Praetorian Guard, the sea of cypresses.

"Hello Kashiwa-sama."

"Yo, isn't this the heart-burning Lord of the Warden Division? Why, the Warden snatched the case and grabbed the head of my Praetorian Guard? ”

"Presumptuous!" One of her subordinates was about to draw his sword, but he was pressed down by Burning Heart. "Hehe, I can't complain that these neighbors say that your Warden is overbearing, you look at this little eight-grade knife actually pulling out a knife in public against my third-grade Praetorian Guard, it seems that I have to tell Your Majesty about the current situation of your Warden Division."

"Lord Bai is not bad, I remember that I am also a serious member of the imperial court, right? Besides, the position of the Warden is the imperial power! Kashiwa-sama doesn't know who is more important to your majesty, me or you. ”

"You! Heh, what are you doing here? ”

"Your Majesty instructed me to come and check the Taishou Mansion. However, Lord Bai, you can rest assured, my Warden Department is investigating the relationship between the case of the mysterious person's request for the annexation of Cha'an Prefecture and the epidemic, and the case of your Praetorian Guard is the source of the spread of the epidemic when His Majesty asked to encircle and seal it. So, you close yours, I check mine, we don't interfere with each other. After speaking, she directly took off the veil, sprayed it with disinfection according to the requirements of the hospital, and entered the house.

"Where is Qin Shan now?"

"Locked in the master bedroom at His Majesty's request, the people from the Tai Hospital will come regularly to check on him."

"Ask the doctor in charge for today to come to see me in the backyard. A few of you, go to the front yard and ask the servants who are still alive in the Taishou Mansion what happened to the Taishou Mansion in the past three months, and you will follow me to the backyard and then call the housekeeper over. Zhuo Xin stared at the flowers and plants in the courtyard, and then said.

"Yes!"

When I got to the backyard, there were obviously a lot fewer people, maybe there were some servants living in the backyard, so it was more deserted.

"Old slave, see Lord Dharma Protector." Outside the door, an elderly man who was already trembling with his feet walked into the backyard and stood back and forth in the room, with his back to him.

"I only have a few questions, first, who is usually responsible for buying the people who serve in the Taishou Mansion, second, what kind of people are the people who serve in the Taishou Mansion, and third, is there a problem with your Qin Taishou."

"Old slave, I don't understand what adults mean." His eyes were visibly drifting.

"Old man, this Dharma Protector doesn't know what the relationship between you and Taishou is, and I don't want to delve into anything else, if you don't want to say it, I'll take a random person back to the prison department for a whip, and I'm sure at least one of them will give me an answer. Why did you call you here, I don't think you want these innocent people who were infected by the epidemic to suffer, right? So, I'm giving you time to think, and I want you to give me the answers you want, whatever you're trying to hide. ”

There was silence for a long time, and there were faint cries and footsteps outside the house, and the old housekeeper suddenly cried and lay on the ground.

"Old slave, old slave has been following Master Taishou for more than thirty years, and since he was a child, the old slave has followed him. When he was a child, his temper was not like now, but occasionally he would get angry because of what he couldn't get, and scold us casually. However, since he grew up, I found that he began to like to fight and kill, either with dead birds, or with other people's dogs and cats, until the last few years. Because he was busy with official duties, he actually began to fall in love with beating people with whips, or still, beating those children. Speaking of this, his expression was obviously a little unspeakable, after all, it had been so many years, and in his eyes, Qin Shan might have been his child.

"The old lady asked me to take care of him, but he fell in love with this strange, perverted hobby, and I couldn't help it, so I watched him buy these children from traffickers every once in a while, and the boys were abused to the fullest, and the girls, basically the next day, were humiliated and died."

"What about the corpses?"

"The first time he did this, he happened to be bumped into by me, and I saw him crying and shouting to me godfather, he didn't want to go to jail, he was also a child, he was still kind. So, so I found someone to throw the bodies of these children and women into the refugee center in the north of the city, which had been abandoned for many years, and there was no one living there for a long time, so it would not happen if I buried them. ”

It's really sad, if it weren't for the fact that the waterfowl were eating the flesh of the carcass and inadvertently gnawed the bones out, she probably wouldn't have known.

"What about the epidemic then?"

"Two days ago, he killed another girl, who had been bought by the refugees with her brother, and who had been the girl who had been serving the adults the night before, and died the next morning. Then I dragged it there as usual, and it was fine, but the next day the adult always felt weak coughing, and there was an inexplicable rash on my body, which then got worse and worse, and then it was like that. ”