"Someone has already been sent to arrest him. But he has already run. We later counted the number of people and found that he had run away with a son and a capable man. The remaining 140-odd people, including his family members, were also handcuffed and shackled, and were taken back to the prison of the Guangzhou Police Headquarters for interrogation. But I don't think these people should be able to ask anything. Qian Minglin said.

Song Qingshu nodded, and was about to say something again, when a person wearing police clothes suddenly walked out of the house and said to Qian Minglin: "Lord Qian, another corpse pit where the corpse is buried has been found. ”

Qian Minglin retched just when he heard these words. If he hadn't vomited out all the food he had eaten in the morning, he wouldn't have retched.

After a while, he said, "You step up your excavation, dig up all the corpses, and let them be autopsied." ”

This person bowed and was about to retreat, when suddenly Song Qingshu said, "You are slow, I will also go in with you to have a look." ”

"Song Guard!" Qian Minglin said loudly: "It's better not to go in and watch." ”

Song Qingshu knew that he had good intentions: it was already like this outside, and it would definitely be even more terrifying inside, and ordinary people couldn't sleep at night after watching it. But he still said: "Qian Tongju, Your Majesty asked me to ask about this case, so I have to go to the house to take a look and know what the situation is." ”

"Are you still going to describe these situations to Your Majesty?" Qian Minglin said in surprise.

"Of course not. But it's better to go in and have a look. Song Qing wrote.

Qian Minglin persuaded him a few words, Song Qingshu still had to go in; He didn't dare to stop him, so he could only reluctantly follow him in.

As soon as Song Qingshu entered, he saw a brick stove by the wall, with an iron pot on it, and a guillotine that seemed to be used for cutting medicinal herbs next to it, as well as large and small pots and baskets lined up on both sides, and the ground was full of unprocessed medicinal materials. At first glance, it looks like a place used to boil medicine in a pharmacy.

However, there was a strange smell wafting from the iron pot, even though the pot had been cold for a long time. It looks like the taste of stewed pork ribs, but it is mixed with a lot of spices to make the taste very weird. As soon as Song Qingshu walked into this courtyard, he felt tightness in his chest and nauseated.

"Lord Guard, this is ......" Before Feng Delin's explanation was finished, Song Qingshu interrupted: "I know what this place does: this must be the place where they brutally killed these people. ”

As he spoke, he looked at the contents of the small jar. "These are herbs to stop bleeding, these are lime, all things that can be used."

He reached out again and lifted the lid of the iron pot, which contained half a pot of white broth and some bone-in flesh.

"There should have been a kid boiling in there." Song Qingshu said.

After listening to Song Qingshu's words, Qian Minglin retched again. Not only him, but several policemen couldn't stand it anymore and threw down what they were holding and escaped.

Song Qingshu took a closer look at the contents of the jar on the side, and said, "It seems that in addition to cutting animals and collecting living souls, they also use human flesh to combine medicine. ”

"Combinations?" Qian Minglin, who had finished retching again, said when he heard this. He had heard folk rumors that human blood could cure tuberculosis, but he had never heard of eating human flesh curing diseases.

"I've only heard about it. Human flesh, human bones, and internal organs can all be used to combine medicines, each with its own usefulness. Most of these "medicines" are aphrodisiacs, abortion pills, and drugs that are "tortured". Song Qingshu said.

Qian Minglin was skeptical. Confucius said to respect ghosts and gods and stay away, and the overall teaching of Confucianism is not to believe in ghosts and gods, so Qian Minglin, who was deeply taught by Confucianism, listened to his words with suspicion.

Song Qingshu didn't fully believe that these things were useful. When he heard the elders of the sect talk about this, he heard them say: 'Using human flesh and human bones to refine medicine will harm the heavens and peace, and it will not be able to die.' And these drugs may not be useful, less than one percent of the people on the rivers and lakes really know how to use human flesh medicine, and the rest are people who cheat money; Even if you really know how to use human flesh to combine medicine, the medicine is extremely harmful to the body of the person taking the medicine and cannot last long. ’

Song Qingshu continued to walk inside, and Qian Minglin could only follow. Soon, the two of them walked to the pit that was being excavated.

Song Qingshu was stunned again after just one glance; Not only him, but all the people who had just walked in to see this scene were stunned, as if they were frozen in a movie.

There are four corpses that can be clearly seen in the cave, which are stacked up with the code method of yard firewood, and they are stacked very neatly, and the heads and feet are staggered and inverted with each other very compactly, and there is another layer below from the margin, or more than one layer. The bodies were supposed to be the bodies of two women and two children, four of which were mutilated and similar to the body of the boy he had seen outside.

The only one of these people who performed better was Feng Delin, but he also secretly wondered in his heart: "Since ancient times, those who have come to harvest and harvest are not able to see the light, and most of the actors are wandering, and they rarely collect animals in one place continuously." There must be some other reason for setting up a stall like this. ’

Song Qingshu couldn't bear it anymore, turned around and vomited, and vomited out all the things he had eaten in the morning. It took him a long time before he eased up, didn't continue to look at it, staggered out of the yard, and said to Qian Minglin: "Continue to explore and see if there are other pits where the corpse is buried, and it is important not to leave a corpse." I will go back now to report to Your Majesty. ”

When he had finished speaking, he mounted his horse and galloped on.

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"......, Your Majesty, the minister also carefully looked at the materials of their clothes and the gourds used, etc., which are the same as the two crutches that were caught and killed yesterday." Song Qingshu stood in front of Yun Xi and said.

"This is a big witch case! Your Majesty is still in Guangzhou, and someone dares to do such a big witch case! Wang Xi, who was standing on the side, couldn't help but say when he heard him finish.

Everyone was stunned. Your Majesty is still in Guangzhou, and someone has done such a big witch case, this sentence is worth pondering.

"I see." Yun Xi didn't give them a chance to think nonsense, and calmly ordered one by one: "Immediately order the commander of Guangdong to send soldiers from the guard post to completely surround that area, forbid anyone to leave, and arrest the violators immediately, and if they can't be captured alive, they will be killed on the spot; The order was sent to the sailors to send boats to guard the river. From tomorrow onwards, all the houses and boats outside the Zhenhai Gate will be searched, and no one will be missed. ”

"Pass the order to Qian Minglin, all the people who have been caught must not die, and I will never let anyone go lightly if they die."

"Set up a 'task force' specifically responsible for this case, with Qian Minglin in charge, and it is important to find out why they are collecting and cutting outside the city of Guangzhou, and what the collected souls and the parts of the people are used for. In this case, any person or thing from the yamen can be transferred immediately without permission, and anyone who dares to stop it will be dismissed. ”

Feng Delin found out that the place where the Caisheng and Torture case took place, and he was very credited, and asked Qian Minglin to arrange an official position for him to be a positive or subordinate to the eighth grade, and submit it to me to give a holy decree of appreciation. If someone makes a contribution to solving the case again, I will not hesitate to reward it. ”

“……”

"Yes, Your Majesty." Song Qingshu and Song Liang, who were kneeling in front of him, replied after waiting for him to finish his order.

"Song Qingshu, you haven't eaten yet, you've worked hard, and I'll be rewarded to you. I asked the accompanying chef to cook you a good meal. Yun Xi said again.

Song Qingshu agreed, seeing that he had no other instructions, and retreated with Song Liang and the others.

When they retreated, Wang Xi, who was standing aside, immediately said, "Your Majesty, this witch Gu case is ......."

"I am still in Guangzhou City, and someone dares to do such a big case, so it can be seen that more than half of this may be aimed at me." Yun Xi's face was not very good-looking, but he said very calmly.

In his previous life, he knew that there were a lot of spells and things like that around the world. Although the vast majority of them are deceptive gadgets, some of them are difficult to distinguish between the real and the fake. In his previous life, when he was a child, he had heard his parents talk about 'Daxian', and he had heard things like 'ghosts hitting the wall', but he had not seen a convincing explanation.

Whether these are true or not, it proves that there are many people in the people who believe in these things. Since some people believe, it is very normal for someone to use this to kill people's lives, or whatever.

He stays in the capital on weekdays, even if he comes to Guangzhou to travel, he is guarded by hundreds of people before and after, and the inner courtyard of the palace is also guarded by people who come from the capital to take care of others, and it is difficult to assassinate him if someone wants to kill him, and it is relatively reliable to use witchcraft.

Wang Xi also thought of this layer just now, and immediately said in a panic when he heard this: "Your Majesty, since this is the case, Your Majesty should hurry up and leave Guangzhou City." ”

"Panic what!" Yun Xi said: "Although there is a fifty percent certainty that it is for me, there is also a fifty percent possibility that it is for other things, but I just happened to be at the right time. ”

"What's more, it is safest for me to stay in the palace, if I leave Guangzhou City in a hurry, it will be difficult for the guards to do it very safely, if someone really wants to murder me, it will give them an opportunity to assassinate."

"So I'll stay in Guangzhou City and wait until the case is completely investigated."

Yun Xi's first sentence was just casual comfort, which was not only to comfort himself, but also to comfort Wang Xi; When he was in the city of Guangzhou, something like this happened outside the city, and even if there was no evidence, it was almost certain that it was aimed at him.

But the last two sentences are sincere. At this time, it is better to be still, so he will stay here and wait for the case to be clarified.

Wang Xi listened to his words, thought about it and felt that it made sense, and said: "Then from today on, Your Majesty will not go to the palace, and will make plans after the case is solved." ”

"Huh?" Yun Xi was stunned for a moment and said, "Okay, if it's not necessary, I won't go to the palace." ”