Soon, Leng Ying invited him over.

The servant followed, three steps and two steps after the cold shadow's pace.

He kept his head down, staring straight at his toes, not interested in anything else.

Rao is dog days, and when Leng Ying saw the piles of corpses piled up by the lake again, he couldn't help but shiver again.

He put on a cloth mask as usual, looking calm and professional.

"Qin Huan, the grass people, visited Prince Yin and the princess on the side."

Yin Nanchen bowed slightly, "Flatten." ”

"Master, please." Mu Qingge was a little anxious, he really didn't have time to continue to do all that red tape right now, in such a hot weather, the corpse would be even more corrupted.

"Okay." He put down the box he was carrying, and immediately stepped forward to begin to inspect it.

"These corpses have been soaked in water for a long time, and they have produced corpse wax." He looked closely at the yellow and white object on one of the corpses, and his face was extremely serious.

"What is corpse wax?" Mu Qingge asked.

"It was formed by the long-term fat saponification of the corpses, and these corpses should have been left for a long time."

As soon as these words came out, a group of elite soldiers who were accustomed to seeing life and death also shuddered, and a few of them couldn't help but turn around and vomit at the thought that they had actually drunk the water with the corpse.

"This corpse has been sitting here for more than an hour, will it make your judgment wrong?" Mu Qingge asked with concern.

"No, it won't." He shook his head, "These corpses have been waxed, unless they are exposed to the sun for a long time, the temperature will not affect the judgment of the grass people." ”

"That's good." Mu Qingge breathed a sigh of relief, and it could be regarded as letting go of his thoughts.

The breeze on the lake blew and brought up willow leaves, but at this moment, everyone gathered around the lake obviously had no intention of admiring the beautiful scenery, and only focused all their attention on the eight corpses.

Mu Qingge stared at the corpse where he took out tools to examine the corpses one by one, and finally announced.

"These eight corpses, all of them young children, and all of them boys, only looked huge because they had been soaked and enlarged for a long time."

"What?!" Mu Qingge stood up abruptly from the rattan chair, his voice full of indignation, "What kind of ruthless person would actually attack a child!" ”

"The body was tied with ropes, but there were no obvious fatal marks, only signs of struggle, and it looked like someone had been thrown alive into the lake and drowned." He made a serious analysis.

Mu Qingge only felt that his head was buzzing as if it had suddenly exploded, swaying and swaying, as if he was about to fall.

Yin Nanchen hurriedly supported Mu Qingge and said sharply, "Leng Ying, report it, this king will investigate this matter thoroughly!" ”

"No, my lord." Mu Qingge hurriedly grabbed him, and his beautiful eyes were full of red bloodshot at this time, "There are so many young children who have died, but none of their parents have reported to the official, Qingqing feels that this matter is extremely strange." ”

"Qingqing, what do you think?" Yin Nanchen asked.

"Ordinary people's children are lost, early

If these eight children are not orphans, then that is, their parents knew about the murder. ”

Leng Ying didn't dare to agree with Mu Qingge's statement on the side, "What if they have already reported to the official, but they can't find the corpse?" ”

Mu Qingge said unhurriedly: "If there was really such a strange thing, it would have been spread to ten people by one person, and ten by ten people to hundreds of people, and spread to the capital." But we have been staying at the inn for the past few days, but we have never heard of a child going missing inexplicably. ”

"Of course, this matter may also be done by someone in the county government, because it has been suppressed and not reported, so there is no news in the capital, but if this is the case, it is also a little contradictory."

Saying that, Mu Qingge shook his head, "If the county order is done, these parents have no hope of reporting to the official, and the whole city should be lifeless." But we have all seen that the enthusiasm here is very enthusiastic, and even the prince came in person, and no one took the documents to shout grievances. ”

Mu Qingge's face was wrinkled together, this thing was so weird that she couldn't figure it out.

"Do you mean that this is done not only by the people in the county government, but also by the parents of the children?" A sharp light flashed in Yin Nanchen's eyes.

If this hurtful thing was really the work of any official, he would have taken the head of this dog thief with his own hands.

Mu Qingge had a flash of inspiration in her mind, if she had to draw a conclusion about this matter, there was a ridiculous idea in her heart.

"Zuo, are you from Bashu?" Mu Qingge raised his head and looked at the work on the side.

"Back to the princess, the grass people are from Bashu." He replied.

"Have you ever heard of any rituals here?" Mu Qingge straightened his body and looked at him with sharp eyes.

His body trembled, "The grass people have not heard of any sacrifices here. ”

Mu Qingge took a few steps forward, approached Qi Zuo, and looked the man in front of him up and down.

In his early thirties, he was short, dressed in coarse linen clothes, and he looked shabby, and his hands, which should have been carefully protected, were covered with calluses from rough work.

If you really do the best in a certain industry, how can you be so poor?

Mu Qingge tilted his head to look at Leng Ying and asked, "Leng Ying, is this guy really the best guy in the local area?" Don't just because you're short on time. ”

"The subordinates have repeatedly asked the people, this is indeed the best work of Bashu." Leng Ying replied seriously.

In this case, it is very likely that this problem lies with the pretend!

Mu Qingge's gaze moved back to Qi Zuo, she spoke again, and her tone was a little aggressive, "Master Qi Zuo, there are so many child corpses at the bottom of the lake inexplicably, I don't think you are half surprised, I'm afraid, you already know about this, right?" ”

As soon as these words came out, the soldiers around them were shocked.

The right shoulder of the servant shrugged slightly, and replied: "The princess of the side has really wronged the grass people, the grass people deal with corpses every day, how can they be surprised in the face of corpses?" ”

Heh, Mu Qingge sneered.

just

Just that sentence, this guy panicked directly, she is a psychology student, to see if people are lying, she can still see accurately.

"Dealing with corpses every day? I don't think so. I've also inquired in the town in the past few days, and the people here believe in ghosts and gods very much, and it is a great disrespect to ghosts and gods to disassemble corpses. In that case, where did you get the corpses for you to deal with? ”

"Master, you are dressed so plainly, and the cocoons at the tiger's mouth are extremely heavy, I think, chopping firewood is what you are doing now to support your family, right?"

Mu Qingge squinted his eyes, and his loud and beautiful voice echoed on the edge of Lake Toya.

"Side, side princess is really smart and different from ordinary people." Sweat droplets the size of beans had already appeared on his forehead, and he hunched his waist, not daring to look directly at Mu Qingge's gaze, "It's just that Princess Fang can't just rely on this to conclude that the grass people know about this!" ”

"Why not?" Mu Qingge put his hands behind him and slowly circled around his body.

Her gaze was like a knife, as if she wanted to cut out all her thoughts.

"When you first saw these corpses, there was no surprise in your expression, but rather regret and grief. If you really don't know what's going on, what do you regret and what do you grieve? ”

In the face of doubts, the already little-spoken man became even more nervous, and he stood in place, his body trembling violently.

When Mu Qingge saw him like this, he knew that his guess was not far from ten.

She stepped forward and approached the servant, and asked sharply, "Say! What are you doing in your heart? These are innocent children! Are you really going to let them avenge this? ”

I saw that Na Zuo was defeated by Mu Qingge's words, and fell to his knees with a thud, kowtowing desperately, "Princess Fang, all this has its own cause and effect, don't ask again!" ”

"Nonsense!" Yin Nanchen opened his mouth sharply.

From Mu Qingge's words just now, he quickly analyzed what happened, and he was even more indignant at this time.

"Everything has a cause and effect? How can you say such foolish and ignorant words! ”

"Lord Wang......" trembled, and he couldn't say a complete word.

"Leng Ying, take my token and escort the Bashu County Order directly over. Today, this king will try this ignorant case well! ”

With that, he took out his sign from his bosom and threw it over.

"Yes!" Leng Ying received the order and left immediately.

Mu Qingge stood in place, kowtowing constantly in the face of the pretence, she didn't help the other party up for the first time, "If you don't want to say, then you will keep kowtowing here!" ”

After speaking, she returned to Yin Nanchen's side with her hands, stared at the corpse on the shore with a heavy heart, and sighed.

Although she had a premonition that this would be a tragedy caused by the sacrifice of the boy, she still felt extremely sad when she really confirmed it from the reaction of the puppet.

A whole eight living beings were sacrificed without knowing what source they were used for, and even the parents of the children agreed.

How sad and ridiculous is this?

It looks like the seal is broken

Building superstition is really a personal thing.

"Lord Wang......" Mu Qingge's nose was a little sour, and crystal tears blurred her eyes, "Can Qingqing not cure this water?" This flood is the retribution of these townspeople, they are so ignorant, why should we help them? ”

Yin Nanchen hugged her tightly in his arms, looking at the woman's appearance that had become beautiful because of righteous indignation, he reached out lovingly and brushed her cheek.

"Qingqing, what you said is not right."

"What's wrong?"

"This king can understand your feelings, you are right to say that they are ignorant, but to say that this is their retribution, is it a bit contradictory?"

"That's ......," Mu Qingge touched his nose in embarrassment.

She was indeed a little impulsive just now, the main culprits in this matter were not these townspeople, it was only because of their silent choice to be bystanders that she was so angry.

(End of chapter)