The next day, Lige dressed neatly and knelt in front of the gate of the house to greet the holy decree.

After that, he didn't stop for a moment, got into the carriage that had been prepared last night, and left the city one after the other with the carriages of several adults.

Because it was inconvenient to take Bayu with her, Lige handed Bayu over to the servant to take care of her for her.

Since leaving the city, Yao and the people have dealt with two groups of assassins who came to assassinate, and they have protected the Qincha brigade all the way.

Jiangsu is only one city away from the capital, so they soon arrived at Jiangbei City, where the shortcut must pass, to rest for a night and continue tomorrow.

It wasn't until the post station that Lige saw the unlucky ones who had been sent by the empress together, a woman who looked about her age, and three elderly adults, saluting her with a blank smile.

"I've seen Chincha-sama."

"Get up, rest well today, and officially enter the state tomorrow, and no one is allowed to slack off

。 ”

"Yes." The four of them still didn't smile, and they couldn't lift their spirits, to put it bluntly, it was impossible for the empress to let them return to the court.

"No sound!" She shouted, so listless! How to face the local bureaucrats who will embarrass them tomorrow!

"Yes!" The four of them barely cheered up and coped with her, and they were very angry with the song.

"Look at you, listless, who believes your minister! Well? You believe! Or do you believe it? In your state! Never try to solve a crime! ”

Her voice was very loud, with a powerful majesty, which made people bow their heads and dare not look directly, and the servants in the inn looked sideways and talked about it.

"It seems that these nine kings are not as incompetent as the legend, but they are still quite ambitious."

"Yes, but these ministers do seem to have little strength, why did the empress send so many people."

Gossip kept coming into the ears of several ministers, who had listened to good words for half their lives, who had been insulted in public.

Suddenly, an older man raised his head.

"Lord Wang, you reprimanded us in public and stepped on us to elevate your own status! We don't have anything to say about you, but you should think about where to start tomorrow! ”

The minister left such a sentence, bowed to her, and walked to the front first.

The other three are estimated to be younger and have a small list, so they dare not touch her.

"Lord Wang, the lesson is the lesson."

"If you want to go back, how can you face those flood beasts without basking yourself! Together, we will be able to solve this case. Lige patted the arms of several people comfortingly, and the three of them looked at her confident pace of believing that she could return to Beijing, and even had the idea that she would definitely be able to return to Beijing again.

After resting all night, the night was still not peaceful, and he was almost killed by a hidden weapon.

The next day, in the early hours of the morning.

They got on the carriage to Jiangsu, and soon arrived at the city gate of Jiangsu, where local officials were already standing at the gate to greet them.

"Fengtian carrier, the empress edict said, the Jiangsu case, there has been no progress for a long time, and I specially appointed the nine kings as the representatives of the ministers to assist in the investigation."

"Thank you, long live Your Majesty."

The carriage was driven into the city under the bows of the officials.

"Meet Chincha-sama."

When he arrived at the city lord's mansion, Li Ge got out of the carriage in an official robe, and the city lord took the lead to greet him.

"Meet the prince."

"Get up." She gave her a handful.

The lord of the city was a wealthy woman, accompanied by two daughters, and seemed to have neglected her a little, and bowed superficially.

Lige didn't care, she didn't come here to play prestige, the form was almost the same.

On the way, she asked the city lord what new discoveries he had made recently, and the city lord just shook his head and sighed.

"What about the newly discovered corpses of children? Take me to see it. ”

"Yes." Lige put on the protective clothing sent by his subordinates, and then walked into the wooden house where the corpse was parked.

The corpse could only be pieced together piecemeal, most of the parts were missing, she squatted down and looked through it, and from the skin, it was indeed a human tooth mark, but she observed the crisp fracture point of the bone, but the bite force was a little different from ordinary people.

What kind of monster is it, it can't be a monster like Dugu Lian, that's not easy to do.

She frowned sadly, and went over every detail of the corpse, asking the young official to help her take notes.

"Show me." After inspecting the corpses, she went to ask which families had lost their children, and she spread out the map and circled it on the map, and these families had almost no connection, some were rich, some were poor, and they couldn't be beaten.

At first, she didn't have any ideas, but as hundreds of households were marked, she gradually discovered a pattern, starting from the first household, almost every three households, there would be a straight line, and on this straight line, there would be no child theft in the family, if it was at the turning point of that line, there would be three families who would lose their children.

If this pattern can be found, then they must quickly calculate the next one and prepare in advance.

"Report to your lordship, there is another report of a child being stolen from the city." The catcher walked in with the report materials with a headache.

Lige looked at the map, stared at one place, and asked.

"But in the south of the city, near the dyeing mill?"

"Huh? How do you know, my lord! Caught up in surprise and handed over the information in the water to her copy.

"It's really near Chengnan's dyeing workshop, alas~ I heard that her child has not been good at words since he was a child, but he is very smart, and he will be praised by the master when he returns, but it's a pity, I'm afraid that he has been poisoned now." Shaking her head with a sigh, Lige took out a notebook and wrote down the child's character, she would not miss any detail.

"Let's go and find out what kind of personality those children are, what they like to do most on weekdays, and what is special about them."

"Yes!"

Lige took a measuring stick and determined on the map that the next turning point was near the dyeing workshop in the south of the city, and little by little he depicted where the next family should be.

She held up the map and looked at it, but found that if she continued according to this law, the turning point would return to the direction of Dongcheng, where the incident had occurred, forming a huge circle that would encircle the whole of Jiangsu.

Lige didn't understand why this perverted cannibal murderer had to carefully plan such a regular theft method, so she first wrote this doubt on the record.

If this pattern is not found, then she will not be able to deduce the location of the murderer's next step, and the murderer's next theft of a child will not coincide with her reasoning.

The child's body was finally found on the mountain outside the city, and after checking it out of the song, it was indeed a human tooth mark, but the bite force was surprisingly large.

When the child's father and mother came to retrieve the child's body, she could only comfort her with sorrow.

Lige sent the couple away and went back to his room to wash up.

At this time, Yao stopped her and told her not to move.

Lige was puzzled, only to hear the creaking sound on the floor, and then her skirt seemed to be pulled a little, and suddenly thought of something bad, she jumped into Yao's arms in horror!

"Ahh Ghosts! ”

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