Yang Ling stepped forward to take a look, and saw a "hill" piled up in front of the door of Taifu's mansion, a mountain of corpses. Although Yang Ling usually saw more corpses of different shapes, it was the first time that so many corpses were piled together.

No wonder the attendant vomited like that, and suddenly saw this scene, even he was a little unbearable.

"Quick, go and report to Dali Temple!" Thinking that Li Yiqian said that he couldn't make a noise, Yang Ling asked people to close the door after giving instructions to the people behind him.

Leaving the people around him standing at the gate waiting for the arrival of Dali Siqing, Yang Ling entered the palace alone.

When Dali Siqing suddenly heard this, his face turned pale at that time, and he hurriedly took people to Taifu's mansion.

When he arrived, he saw several people from the criminal department standing there with serious faces, not knowing what they were thinking.

"Taifu Mansion is really ......" Dali Siqing asked directly to the little head inside, he still couldn't believe it, the mansion of the dignified first-class master was slaughtered like this, and there was no movement.

"The subordinates haven't gone in yet, Lord Yang sent someone to inform you and then entered the palace, and ordered us to stay here before leaving."

Yang Ling is the secretary of the Criminal Department, and there is such a vicious and huge number of murder cases in Beijing, and it will definitely be handed over to him in the end, plus this matter is the news that the emperor asked him to deliver, so he immediately entered the palace to ask for a decree after seeing the situation at the gate.

"Go in and search for any of the holes in there. Remember, don't touch anything inside. Dali Siqing knew that this matter would eventually be taken over by Yang Ling, but now he couldn't do nothing, so he could only ask his people not to do anything practical, so that they could get rid of it later.

This case is not simple at a glance, and when the murderer is tracked down, a lot of people may be involved, and when people are offended, they may not be able to do good things, so Dali Siqing doesn't want to have anything to do with it at all.

Yang Ling didn't see Li Yiqian after he arrived at the Qiangong, and Mu Xiu directly gave him a holy decree, which said that he had full authority to investigate the matter. Mu Xiu also told him that if there is any difficulty in handling everything, he will go to Yong'an Hou Sun Ze, who is now in charge of the defense of Beijing.

Yang Ling came out of the palace and did not go to the Taifu Mansion first, but went directly to the Yong'an Hou Mansion. Now he needs Sun Ze to cooperate with him to blockade the whole city so that the murderer will not escape.

Yang Ling briefly told Yong'an Hou about this, conveyed Li Yiqian's instructions, and also said his thoughts. They discussed it and then parted. After Yang Ling left, Sun Ze also immediately changed his clothes and went out.

Originally, the killing of Qian Taifu's whole mansion was his dereliction of duty, and if something went wrong in this matter, he, the Marquis of Yong'an, who was in charge of Huajing's guard mission, would probably have to be held accountable together.

Soon, Yang Ling arrived at Taifu's mansion, and he didn't get angry when he saw that the people from Dali Temple were just wandering around the mansion and didn't do anything useful. When Dali Siqing saw him, he immediately came over very cordially and greeted: "Lord Yang, is this coming back from the palace?" What did the emperor say about this? ”

"There is Lao Dali Temple Qing here to watch, the emperor has an order, ordering the official to be fully responsible for the thorough investigation of this case, and please let all the people of Dali Temple evacuate here. Also, it is not allowed to be mentioned to outsiders at this time. Yang Ling knew his thoughts, so he didn't be polite to him.

"In this way, the rest of the matter will trouble Lord Yang, and the lower officials will go back first, and there are still affairs to be dealt with in Dali Temple." Dali Siqing was not annoyed by his cold attitude, and left with a smile. Sending such a hot potato, he was naturally happy.

He didn't pay attention to Yang Ling's ban. Such a big matter must be impossible to hide, as long as there are some sources in Beijing, they will definitely know later. But if you can grasp the opportunity, you may be able to take advantage of the opportunity to do something. Thinking about it like this, he went directly to the General's Mansion.

Last time, because of the incident in Liuqu, the general was very dissatisfied with him, if he could make a contribution this time, and the general said peace, maybe he would be able to move in his official position. Thinking about it like this, he walked faster on his feet.

And not long after he left, the people from the Criminal Department and the Jingwei Camp arrived at the Taifu Mansion. It turned out that in order to save time, when Yang Ling first arrived at the Yong'an Hou Mansion, he had already asked Sun Ze's second son to take his token to the Criminal Department to transfer people, and also asked Sun Ze to send some people to him, and the people came just at this time.

Because there were many dead people, Yang Ling could only let them carry these corpses to the largest main courtyard first and line them up in turn. An autopsy found that the time of death of these people was no more than an hour, and according to the degree of their decomposition and the corpse spots on them, it is known that the time of death of these people was within a day, and it was probably last night, because night is the time when people's defenses are weakest.

What's more, Mrs. Qian and a few people who look like masters are wearing bed clothes, which can also be seen that they were originally preparing to rest. But what is strange is that they were not found in their respective bedrooms, but were piled up into a "mountain of corpses" like the door. Judging by the physical appearance of these people, it should be the people in Mrs. Qian's backyard and his children.

And what made Yang Ling feel the most strange was that after the people from the Criminal Department took the roster and checked the people in the mansion in turn, they found that Mrs. Qian's wife and the people serving in her courtyard were gone. I searched the entire Taifu Mansion and found no trace of these people.

And in Mrs. Qian's courtyard, they also found something strange. In her bedroom, there was a very small altar, with statues of the five poisons placed in each of the five corners, and in the center was a spider, each of which was red, and they were also connected by red handwriting. Not only that, but there is also a painting in her bedroom that looks exactly like the spider statue, which is very realistic. And the image and the altar looked like they were worshiped every day.

And under Mrs. Qian's pillow, they also found a small piece of jade, on which in addition to a strange symbol, also engraved with the spider.

When Yang Ling was sitting in the courtyard listening to his subordinates' reports, he suddenly thought of a similar altar recorded in the books he had seen before. With insects as the mainstay, the five poisons on the side, and daily worship, this is ...... The Gu Sacrifice of Lan Country!

"How many corpses are there?" Yang Ling asked anxiously and loudly.

"Eighty."

Yang Ling muttered the number in a low voice.

He stood up suddenly, and hurriedly instructed the people around him: "Don't touch anything in this mansion again, exit immediately, and just stay at the gate." This official must enter the palace immediately to see the emperor! ”

The people around them were a little curious when they saw their face-paralyzed adults change their faces for the first time, but they didn't dare to ask more. After all, if it disturbs him to handle the case, he won't tell them anything about his colleagues. As long as they do what they are told, they can't go wrong.

After roughly instructing his subordinates not to touch the things in this mansion, Yang Ling hurriedly headed in the direction of the palace. At this time, he couldn't care about the fact that it was too late to enter the palace, he only knew that if he didn't report this matter in time, he would definitely become a sinner in the entire Chinese country.

At this time, in the Qiangong Palace, Li Yiqian had been sitting for an afternoon, and when he finally adjusted his mood, he found that it was already dark. After thinking about it, he took Mu Xiu to Yuquan Palace.

I don't know what happened to Xin'er, she suffered so much early in the morning. Worried about Lin Yaxin's condition, he quickened his pace.

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"Is Xin'er asleep?" Seeing Ziyue guarding the door of the dormitory, Li Yiqian lowered his voice and asked.

"Back to the emperor, Niangniang just lay down after eating something, and she must not have fallen asleep yet."

"Have you eaten lunch?"

"I only used some light ones, and it was normal for my mother to have no appetite for a while. And Sister Ziyue said that Niangniang's body was fine, so Niangniang did not force herself to eat. ”

Nodding to indicate that he knew, Li Yiqian walked in gently.

"You're here." Lin Yaxin hadn't fallen asleep yet, and she could hear the conversation outside just now, so she didn't look surprised to see Li Yiqian come in.

"Makes you suffer." Li Yiqian sat on the edge of the bed and stretched out his hand to caress Lin Yaxin's face. Xin'er has been pregnant for more than three months, and according to a normal woman, she should be fat, but she is thinner than before. Thinking about the suffering she has suffered in the past two days, Li Yiqian's heart is full of guilt.

"Don't feel guilty, you've done a good job." Seeing that Li Yiqian's mood was not good, Lin Yaxin comforted him softly. "If it weren't for you, I'm afraid there would have been no Lin Yaxin in the world. You protected me well. As for these sufferings, I don't blame you, but I think they are an obstacle to our happiness. You know, no matter how big the difficulty is, it will eventually pass. ”

Knowing that she cared about herself, Li Yiqian smiled and asked herself to be as open-minded as possible, so as not to bother her about herself.

"It'll pass, trust me."

"You and I are husband and wife, who else can you trust if you don't believe me?"

While the two were talking, Mu Xiu suddenly knocked on the door and said that Yang Ling had an urgent matter to see in the Qiangong.

Li Yiqian frowned slightly invisibly, shouldn't Yang Ling be dealing with the affairs of the Taifu Mansion, how could he enter the palace at this time? He is not such an ignorant person, it is not the matter of the Qian Mansion...... Li Yiqian suddenly had an ominous premonition. For some reason, he suddenly thought of the weird smile that the fake Qian Ruyi had before it was taken away, and he thought that it was because the real Qian Ruyi was still alive that she would laugh like that. Now it seems that there must be something more angry in their plans.

It's just Xin'er here......

Seeing Li Yiqian's hesitation, Lin Yaxin said: "Go quickly, I will take care of myself, don't worry." ”

Knowing that Lin Yaxin was not a stingy person, and that the matter of the Qian Mansion was indeed very important, Li Yiqian gently kissed her forehead. Turned around and walked out.