Everyone got out of the boat with a heavy heart, and followed Takeo Kameita to the beach where the body was found again.

The same two white miserable corpses. When it was found, it had just been pushed to the shore by the waves, and now it has been dragged by the sailors to an open space above the high tide line.

It's a little different from the floating corpse just now. The hands of the two bodies were tied behind their backs with hemp ropes. The head was covered with a black cloth sleeve, and the fatal wound was in the chest and abdomen. I don't know how many knives I was stabbed.

Because of the soaking in the water, the blood had already dried up, and the skin and flesh at the white knife edge were rolled open. Just like the grim reaper's grinning smile.

Qin Lin first took a closer look before tearing off the hood, the first corpse was unknown to people, and when he ripped off the hood of the second corpse, people immediately let out a dull and suppressed exclamation.

Although the facial muscles are twisted and deformed, showing the posture of struggling to call for help before dying, and being slightly swollen and deformed by the seawater, it can still be clearly recognized. This is Xie Jie, the deputy envoy of the canonization of the pedestrian department.

"Oh my God......" Liang Can and Wei Rong cried out in despair.

The boat was robbed before, and the boat was covered with blood. They still hold on to the last bit of hope, that is, the canonized angel is still alive in the world, but now this last bit of hope has been ruthlessly extinguished. Their mission was completely shattered.

They even had to consider whether the angel of the Ming Dynasty would be angry with the Ryukyus when the angel of the Ming Dynasty was killed on the way to Ryukyu.

Xie Jie's corpse's eyes widened. It seems that until death came, it was incredulous, soaked in seawater. It turned into a pair of large dead fish eyes.

Qin Lin sighed, stretched out his hand and closed his eyes for him. It feels weird in my heart.

Although he didn't have a good impression of this arrogant civil official, he always had a relationship, and a few days ago he was sitting together and talking, and in the blink of an eye, he turned into a cold corpse, which inevitably made people feel a little embarrassed.

Shaking his head, Qin Lin gathered his chaotic thoughts, "Ordered Lu Yuanzhi to inspect Xie Jie's corpse."

The cause of death of these corpses is clear. There was no controversy, and the fat man quickly came to the conclusion that Xie Jie had no other injuries on his body except for the fatal wounds in the chest and abdomen, indicating that he was tied up without resistance and then killed; The fatal wound was indeed nine stab wounds in the chest and abdomen, "the knife was deep into the internal organs, and any one of them was enough to kill him: there was no seawater in the lungs" proves that he was killed on the spot, and that he was thrown into the sea after his death, and came here with the wind and waves.

As for the time of death, it was about a day and a half," that is, between midnight the day before yesterday and dawn yesterday.

Qin Lin nodded, so far the key time points of the case have been connected: on the morning of August 25 (the day before yesterday), "the boat was robbed in Zhoushan, and after about noon, the two Ryukyu envoys "escaped" by boat and returned to the sea area where the crime occurred. Then he fled back to Hangzhou to report the case: between the late night of the same day and the early morning of the 26th, the passengers and sailors on the sealed boat were killed and thrown into the sea near Daqushan Island;

At dawn on the 26th, the Wufeng maritime merchants on Daqushan Island discovered that a ship had run aground on the beach. The examination found that it was the sealing boat on which the canonized angels were ridden. The ship was stained with blood, "immediately sent the eight fast boats back to Hangzhou to report to Jin Yingji."

Because the Ryukyuan people's fortune ships were slower, "the eight ships of the Wufeng Maritime Merchants were fast, so although the departure time was about ten hours late, the two arrived in Hangzhou at the same time on the night of the 26th, and Qin Lin, Jin Yingji, Liu Tidao, and Li Sixian received the news almost at the same time. The two sides clashed last night and eventually rushed to Daqushan Island overnight.

After an all-night voyage, "today, the 27th, the officials arrived at Daqushan Island" and found floating corpses in the sea and on the coast.

Examination of the cause of death of the corpse is simple and clear. It seems that there is no way to make a breakthrough in this case from the examination of the body alone.

"Who knows how many sailors and passengers are on board?" Qin Lin asked the two Ryukyu envoys.

Liang Can thought for a moment, and replied, "Including the two angels and their attendants and guards, there were seventeen passengers, and thirty-nine sailors on board... What does Chief Qin mean? ”

"If I'm not mistaken, new bodies will be found." Qin Lin looked at the sky and let out a long breath.

Jin Yingji immediately ordered Quan Zhengyin to dispatch ships to the water village to search for the corpses in the sea.

In the distance, the Shuizhai Fort sounded three cannons, large and small ships swarmed out, Fu boats, Guangzhou boats, centipede boats, and eight fast boats, looking at the sea in a fan, and after a while, a boat stopped and salvaged something from the sea with iron claws and hooks.

The officials on the shore were far away. I can't see what I'm fishing, but everyone knows it. ,

Liu Tidao's face became more and more ugly. At first, he only learned from the Ryukyu envoys that the people in Yingzhou's lawsuit had taken the seal away, so he was full of confidence and wanted to bring down Jin Yingji and Qin Lin; Unexpectedly, there was a shocking case of angels being killed and the whole ship being killed, and the case occurred in the waters of the Xijiang River. Can he, the Xijiang patrol, still be able to settle down?

What's even more unfortunate is that Jin Yingji and Qin Lin still refuse to admit their guilt honestly, and prefer to chirp crooked quibbles.

"These sea people and military attachés who can't read a single word. I really don't know anything about etiquette and honesty." Liu Tidao sighed, it seemed that Qin Lin and Jin Yingji took the initiative to admit the crime of framing him, and he was satisfied, and he was called a deep sense of righteousness.

Wufeng maritime merchants dispatched a large number of ships to "search the nearby sea like a comb, and soon the bodies floating in the sea were recovered and transported to the shore."

There were forty-two bodies in total, and the rest were either fed to sharks or sunk to the bottom of the sea, presumably never to be found.

The Ryukyu envoys sadly discovered that Xiao Chongye was also among them in the canonization of the envoy Hu Kezuo. There is no difference between the death state and the deputy envoy Xie Jie.

"Haha, isn't this evidence that you killed the angel?" Liu Tidao said in a fierce voice: "These corpses are floating on the sea near Daqushan Island, and your sea boats come and go every day, but you haven't found them until now, isn't it self-deception?" ”

Li Sixian's eyes lit up when he heard this, stroked his swarthy beard, and said in a loud voice: "Yes, yes, yes, I deliberately left it until this time to pick it up, just to put on a show for us!" Chief Jin and Chief Qin, you can hide it from others, but you can't hide it from Liu Xunji and the old man! ”

"Stupid!" Qin Lin scolded them without hesitation: "Didn't you order a special search, you were on the boat and kept your eyes on the sea water at any time?" It's the first time I've heard of such a monster! ”

Kwon Jung-eun added: "Say it again. Our water village was built on the west side of Daqushan Island, which is sheltered from the wind and waves, but the corpses were found on the east, north, and south sides, and they are not on the waterway we commonly use at all. ”

"Chief Qin. Maybe they'll be staring down into the sea at any time on the boat," Sakura pursed. The sly sly smile: "The slave family heard that these officials wanted to transport some money and grain, and they were lost, (the coastal officials of the Ming Dynasty were corrupt, pretending to be the water transport encountered wind and waves and drifted) three or four percent, and it was much more drifting, maybe I really thought that there was silver floating in the sea!" ”

Li Sixian and Liu Tidao were fiercely ridiculed by Jin Yingji. But they couldn't argue that they had indeed "drifted" a lot of silver, so their faces turned red and blue, and it was difficult to say a word after all! ~！