Tongzhou is relatively close to the capital, and it is only a day's journey to speed up the horse, so it will arrive in the evening.

Before this, Feng Tingshi, the capital of Tongzhou, had already received news that Lu Jinping was coming to help solve the mysterious death of the Burning Lamp Heavenly Master, so he took the imperial court adjutant out of the city to greet him.

Although Lu Jinping was Feng Tingshi's subordinate before, and at this moment he is already a prince, and his official quality is superb, far above Feng Tingshi, so of course Feng Tingshi has to lead him out of the city.

After meeting, Feng Tingshi was obviously more polite than before, and bowed from afar. Lu Jinping hurriedly stepped forward and returned the salute and said, "How did Feng Tingshi become so polite." ”

Feng Tingshi hurriedly smiled and said, "Lord Wang, it is a blessing for me to be able to return to Tongzhou again. ”

Lu Jinping said with a smile: "It's a pity that this time I didn't revisit the old place, but, to solve the case, how could the good master of the lamp die in the woods?" Has he been in the same state all the time I left the same state? ”

Feng Tingshi hurriedly said: "Yes, when the prince left Tongzhou, it seems that he was assigned a matter to him, and asked him to help the rich man Ma reorganize the business of Chunhualou. He did a lot of dedication, and he did a few rituals, and they did have some effect. Since then, there have been no homicides or strange deaths in Chunhualou. Of course, the strange thing of being burned to death did not appear. Coupled with the prestige of the Heavenly Master, the business of Chunhualou gradually improved. ”

"At this moment, there was a change in the capital, and of course what made us happiest was the fact that you were promoted to the prince. The Celestial Master of the Lamp was also very happy, and discussed going into the city to visit you. He told me that he wanted to worship you as a teacher, but you didn't want to. It's just that you are now a prince, but I'm afraid that this matter is even more difficult. But no matter how difficult it was, he had to do it, but he didn't expect to die mysteriously in the grove before he could do it. ”

"How did he die?"

"Yesterday afternoon, the people of Chunhualou found that he had not returned, and it was a little strange, so the rich man sent someone to look for him. At this time. A panicked firewood collector ran to the yamen to report that he was passing by in the woods and found a corpse, dressed in a Taoist robe, lying in the grass. I sent the bear catcher to see it, and sure enough, it was the Heavenly Master. He had no external injuries on his body, and his expression was not painful, as if he was asleep. ”

"After confirming that he was dead, the bear catcher hurried to report to me. I went and found that this was the case, so I hurriedly reported to the capital, after all, he was the heavenly master of Juxian Tower, which was not trivial. At the same time, he sent someone to move his body back to the yamen mortuary for storage. At the scene of the crime, I have sent a police guard to surround it, and no one is allowed to enter, just waiting for someone to be sent from above to investigate. ”

"In this case, Xiong Zhutou has no clue. I have no choice but to wait for someone to come. What I hope most is that you can come, my lord. Sure enough, you were the one who sent it. Now that the Heavenly Master died mysteriously, there is hope for this case to be solved. Ay. To tell you the truth, I hope in my heart that it won't be a murder case, otherwise the Heavenly Master will be murdered in our same state, and then I can't afford this responsibility. ”

Lu Jinping nodded and said, "We don't want him to be murdered, but if he is really murdered, then there is no way." The perpetrators must be brought to justice. ”

"Of course. Where is the prince going to start? Is it to see the corpse first or to see the scene? ”

"The body has been moved to the Yamen mortuary, so let's go and see the scene first."

"The scene is on a small hill not far from Chunhualou."

So the group drove to the scene behind the Chunhua Building.

After Lu Jinping got out of the carriage, he saw the rich man of the horse waiting there with a few girls and a cow, and when he saw Lu Jinping getting off the carriage, he quickly came up and knelt down with a smile on his face. Lu Jinping saw them make this great gift. Hurriedly stepped forward and helped him up and said, "No need to be polite, we are all old friends." ”

The rich man said with a smile on his face: "Thank you for the prince's love, the villain is honored." ”

Lu Jinping said: "What's going on? First of all, you can tell me, especially the whereabouts of the Burning Lamp Heavenly Master on the last day, who is with him? ”

Because the body of the Burning Lamp Heavenly Master was found on a small hill near Chunhua Tower, and he lived in Chunhua Tower, it was naturally the detection scope that Lu Jinping focused on.

The rich man said busily: "Yesterday morning, the Burning Lamp Heavenly Master was fine, and said that after doing another ritual he should go to the capital to find you, the prince, and beg him to be accepted as an apprentice." He has always admired your Taoism, saying that your Taoism is the real Taoism, and no one can match it. After breakfast, he went out, saying that there was something, and we didn't dare to send anyone to follow, and he didn't call anyone. As a result, we never came back after we went out, and in the evening, there was no trace, so we were a little anxious, so we sent people to look around, for fear that he would not be able to come back somewhere if he was drunk. ”

"I searched for a long time but didn't find it, and when it was almost dark, I got news that someone had found the body of the Heavenly Master on the hill behind the mountain. The people from the yamen had already gone, so we panicked and hurried over, and didn't let us see closer, but stopped us at the foot of the hill. ”

"However, after dark, they carried the body of the Burning Lamp Heavenly Master out of the hill, and we saw it at a glance, far away. Alas, if he hadn't done Dharma for me continuously, my business in Chunhualou wouldn't have been better day by day, and I was still thinking about being grateful to him, but I didn't expect him to leave us like this, God really has no eyes......"

Speaking of the back, the rich man's voice choked and sobbed.

Lu Jinping patted him on the shoulder and said, "If your business is good, then it's good, do it well, I'll investigate the case first." Let's talk about it later. ”

"Yes." The rich man quickly put away his tears and stepped aside.

Lu Jinping instructed Ye Qingqing and the plum blossom guards to stay where they were, and his forensic investigation box was kept by Ye Qingqing all along. He took it and held it in his hand, and walked up the hill.

When the bears in charge of the guard saw him, their faces were about to laugh, and they hurriedly made a bow. Xiong Zhutou pressed the rope down so that Lu Jinping could step over the rope.

Lu Jinping stepped over the rope, and Xiong Zhutou followed behind, pointed to a small forest in front of him, and said, "The corpse is there." ”

A few paces away, he pointed to where the body was lying.

Lu Jinping began to observe the situation around him. This grove is dense and covered with thorns in addition to pine trees. According to Xiong Zhutou, at that time, the Burning Lamp Heavenly Master fell directly into this thorn bush, facing the sky on his back, pressing his chest with one hand, and putting the other hand on his stomach, curling his legs slightly, saying that there were no other obvious scars on his body except for the places scratched by thorns. There were no signs of a struggle around.

Lu Jinping took a closer look, indeed, this small hill is overgrown with thorns, and it is more difficult to come up, why did the Heavenly Master die here? It's really weird.

Because there is no way to come here, and the small hill is not a scenic spot, so few people usually come up here, but it is just a rocky hill. Then why did the Celestial Master come here? Why did he die here?

Lu Jinping carefully searched the location of the body and the surrounding situation in detail, hoping to find some suspicious traces or residual trace physical evidence. But it was disappointing that nothing was found. Because the ground is covered with grass, there is no dirt to be seen or even footprints left.

Lu Jinping ended the search and said to Xiong Zhutou: "After this matter is over, you go to the capital with me." We are still cooperating well, I transferred you to Jingzhao Mansion in the capital, and you are still the head catcher, what do you think? ”

Xiong Zhutou couldn't help but be overjoyed when he heard this, and said with a long salute: "Thank you for the grace of the prince, I will definitely follow the prince to the death." ”

Lu Jinping got off the hill, and didn't say anything more to the rich man below, accompanied by Feng Tingshi, and went straight to the yamen.

When Lu Jinping left, the water in Tongzhou had not completely receded. And now it has faded, but the catastrophe after the flood is clearly visible in the city, the marks left by the flood on both sides of the house after the flood is more than one person high, and the mud on the street has been cleared, but it still exudes a stench.

After arriving at the Yamen, there are still traces of flood on the walls of the Yamen. Lu Jinping pointed to the trace, sniffed, and said to Feng Tingshi: "After the flood, there will be a plague, have you taken measures?" ”

Feng Tingshi was a little strange, looked at Lu Jinping and said, "Do you still want to prevent the plague?" How to prevent it? ”

"After this flood, there is a lot of garbage, and there are some drowned animals and human corpses, and if you don't bury them in time, it will probably cause a plague epidemic, and many people will die. Quickly find someone to bury or cremate the dead animals, including people, and clean up the garbage, especially in the city where they gather. There is also silt, and then find Lang Zhong to spray some disinfectant medicine everywhere to prevent the plague. ”

Feng Tingshi said: "We are cleaning up the garbage and burying the corpses, and the problem is not big, but we have never heard of this disinfectant potion, but I am afraid that Lang Zhong of the pharmacy does not know how to configure it!" ”

Lu Jinping said: "I have a recipe, I will write it to you." You quickly ask someone to take it to the drugstore in the city and buy it, and immediately suffer it. After cooking, spray the whole city, especially in crowded places, latrines and the like, these filthy things can easily cause the plague, don't you smell a rotten smell in the air? This is the precursor of the plague, and it must be done as soon as possible. Otherwise, it will be too late to wait for the plague to start after it has risen. ”

When Feng Tingshi heard this, he agreed repeatedly, and quickly took the medicine list respectfully, handed it to the attendants beside him, and told him to hand it over to the medical officer of the yamen as soon as possible, immediately purchase medicinal materials and dispense medicines as soon as possible according to the prescription, and spray and disinfect the whole city according to the instructions of the prince. (To be continued.) )

PS: Closed for three days, add one shift every day, a total of three shifts, and add a change at six o'clock in the afternoon. Thank you for your support!