Yun Xi and Wang Xi said a few more words, went to the backyard, and came to the house where they rested at noon these days.

But as soon as he walked in, he saw Xiyi and Li Sha'er waiting here, and couldn't help but ask strangely, "Why didn't you two go to rest?" "Normally, they were already asleep by this time.

"Your Majesty, just now the Song guards suddenly wanted to see you, obviously because the Caisheng torture case has some eyebrows; Although this case sounds scary, the concubine and Sister Li still want to know how it is going, when the case will be solved, and the perpetrators will receive the punishment they deserve. Xiyi said.

Xiyi's words and deeds are a little suspicious of 'harem interference', but no matter who such a case is, they must be very curious, and Yun Xi doesn't care much, but he still hesitates for a moment before saying: "This case does have some eyebrows, and the person who handled such a big case has been arrested, but the content is too sensational, I still won't tell you." ”

He knew that what Song Qingshu said to him must be a 'cut version', and he didn't say anything about the most frightening part, just described the outline of the matter, but even if it was such a 'cut version', Yun Xi felt that Xi Yi would definitely be scared when she heard it, so he didn't want to talk to her. As for Li Sha'er, although Yun Xi felt that she was even bolder than himself, he was reluctant to talk to her.

But Xiyi kept pestering, and Yun Xi had to pick up the rough talk.

When Xiyi heard this, she was really scared and threw herself into Yun Xi's arms; On the other side, although Li Sha'er was also a little scared, her eyes kept turning, as if she was thinking about something.

When Xiyi finally recovered and was sent back to the house to rest by the palace maid who served, Li Sha'er said to Yun Xi: "Your Majesty, the concubine was a little curious the day before yesterday: Your Majesty is in Guangzhou City, and a clear-eyed person must know that at this time, it must be a hundred times more dangerous to carry out harvesting and cutting near Guangzhou City than usual, even if he has done half of it, he will immediately stop and go to other places; But they still did so outside the city of Guangzhou. So the concubine thought it might be for His Majesty at that time. ”

"I heard from Your Majesty just now that this case of harvesting and cutting is very similar to the magic of witchcraft, so this is almost certain to be for Your Majesty."

"You're right, I guess it's for me." Yun Xi waited for her words to finish and said.

"Then Your Majesty is ...... now"

"I've already ordered the yamen here to be strictly investigated. Most of the people who are caught now are just some small minions, and they may not know the real culprit behind the scenes; If you can catch the beggar surnamed Mei who escaped at that time, it may be good, and there will be some clues; But even he ran away, I'm afraid that even these people who led the case will know something. However, I don't know who is the leader, and I'm afraid it will be difficult to find out. Yun Xi said.

Li Sha'er understood what he meant. Committing such a case, whether it is the principal culprit or an accomplice, is the result of Ling Chi's execution, which means that no matter who provokes what kind of words it is, it is meaningless, and no matter how severe the torture is, it may not make them confess.

"Your Majesty, such a thing, such a thing for Your Majesty, there must be a local family or a strong man behind it." Li Sha'er said.

"I also know," Yun Xi said, "that this kind of thing is impossible without the protection of a strong and powerful place. Most of the time because my reforms have almost cut off the way of life. ”

"But there are many such people - my reforms have touched many people, and many people are possible. In particular, Guangzhou is the seat of Guangdong Province, and Guangdong has always been extremely powerful as a clan, and I have no way to verify them one by one. ”

"And I still have a doubt, although robbing people and wealth is like killing their parents, but the case of witch Gu has always been full of beheadings, can these families who drag their families out to handle such a big case?"

The second point is what Yunxi is most puzzled about. It is true that his reforms touched the interests of many people, but they are not completely without a way out, nor can they be completely without a way out; Moreover, after he came to Guangzhou City, he had already suspended the reform, and left a room for these people to breathe, let alone act like this.

"Are you from Annam?" Li Sha'er suddenly thought of these people who were still fighting with the Ming Dynasty: "If Your Majesty has a great possibility ,......, stop the war with Annan in Guangzhou, they will escape from the situation of losing their country." ”

"Annan," Yun Xi muttered, "it's not impossible. It's just that the people of Annam can have such a big influence in Guangzhou City? ”

Yun Xi was also a little skeptical about this. Although the people of Annam look the same as the people in the Liangguang region, it is easy to infiltrate the Ming Dynasty, but more than 30 years ago, the world was in turmoil, and it is not impossible to send a few people over to establish a family with a lot of power. But this had little meaning in this era: according to the practice of the Central Plains Dynasty, it generally did not take the initiative to attack the surrounding Fan countries, especially those in the south. The only purpose of maintaining such a family is to make money from Daming, but you have to worry about the rebellion of the person who presides over the family, which may not be cost-effective.

"There may be Annan people, but it can't be led by them, and there must be a family in the local area to help."

The two of them talked for a while, and went back to the house to rest without discussion.

That night and the next night, Yun Xi probably had nightmares for two consecutive nights because he heard Song Qingshu talk about the Caisheng Folding and Cutting Case, even if he asked the imperial doctor to prescribe a prescription to calm the gods, the incense in the house was replaced with a calming incense, which did not have much effect.

Hee-yi, like him, had nightmares for two nights in a row; Only Li Sha'er, although she fell asleep late that night, did not have nightmares, and the second night was completely normal.

On the morning of the third day, October 20, Yun Xi got up with his groggy head. Although he had nightmares at night for the past two days, he could no longer sleep at a certain time in the morning, and he was more willing to get up and move than to lie in bed all the time.

What's more, there is a report about this harvest and torture - the witch Gu case today, and he can only stand up and listen.

"Your Majesty, a total of more than 30 relatively complete corpses have been found, and at least more than 30 people have been killed by them. There were also many fragments of bones that I wonder if they were part of the more than thirty corpses, and even the most experienced of them could not be determined. ”

"Half of the bodies were women, half were children, and they were of all ages; Among them, there are even children over three years old. ”

"Most of the bodies found were mutilated. After letting the real people in Guangzhou see it, they thought that it was the method needed to perform some evil arts, but this evil art was very obscure, and they couldn't recognize what it was used for. ”

"All the houses and boats outside the Zhenhai Gate have been searched, and there are no items related to this case, and no one is suspicious, but they are still not allowed to go to sea for the sake of safety."

"......," Qian Minglin introduced.

Yun Xi listened carefully to what he said, and he was a little uncomfortable when he listened, but fortunately he didn't eat breakfast in the morning and didn't have anything else to do.

"Does the prisoner have a confession?" Yoon-hee asked. Although it is very unlikely that he will ask for a confession, if there is a valuable confession, Qian Minglin will definitely take the initiative to say it, but he still asked.

"The prisoner can't bear the punishment, and he has already confessed. But confessions are not many, and they are of little use. Qian Minglin said: "These people are all small minions, only responsible for harvesting and cutting, and don't know anything else." The police of Daming are also very unfamiliar with this, and during the interrogation, they can't tell whether their confessions are true or false, and they don't know what to ask except for asking, 'Who is the main envoy behind you?'. ”

Qian Minglin had a headache about this. In order to solve the case as soon as possible, as early as the day he caught them, he ordered: as long as you don't kill them, you can do anything. But the results were not as good as they could have been. Sometimes the detective can sense that the prisoner is lying, but he doesn't know where he is lying.

The thing that comes out now is: The arrested people have been in the business of harvesting and cutting for generations, wandering along the banks of the Pearl River, waiting for the opportunity to abduct women and children, and then carry out harvesting and cutting in secret places; Or after killing, use flesh and bones and other places to refine it, claiming that it can be punished and pregnant. It can cure mysterious drugs such as willow disease, or use various tools to maim people and resell them to beggars for huge profits. However, after Yun Xi banned beggars and homeless people from moving around the city, the latter 'business' was greatly reduced.

From the confession, it can be seen that this kind of 'business' is carried out by families alone, and although they also pass messages to each other, they are not organized and generally do not cooperate. This gathering here is also because of a person in the bank who solicited someone to "do a big job" and pay well. After they arrived here, they realized that things were not simple, but the leader was full of evil arts, and they didn't dare to disobey it, so they could only do it.

“…… The person who summoned them was named Ning Cai, and he was not really the mastermind behind the scenes, but since he was the one who summoned them, he would definitely know something. However, this man has a very strict tone, and the criminal police have used the harshest punishment, but they still don't ask anything. ”

"Nor did any useful confessions be obtained from the beggars and displaced people who were caught. Naturally, these people are not as tight-mouthed as those people, and most of them shout 'confessions' as soon as they are sentenced. But they couldn't say anything useful. ”

"The interrogation continues, especially for the beggars and displaced people who have been caught. The main question was to ask them what the whereabouts of the beggar named Mei or something were the other days ago, and where they had been. Continue to hunt for this person. Yun Xi also felt that it might be too small to get a useful confession from these dry and harvested people, so he ordered the focus to be on beggars and homeless people.

"There are also those corpses whose faces are still neat, and a notice has been issued for people inside and outside Guangzhou to identify the corpses. But be careful not to leak out the case. "The case is still under wraps, and all the police officers who interrogated it are forbidden to go home, so the people of the city know that there is a big crime, but they don't know what it is.

"Yes, Your Majesty." Qian Minglin agreed.