Chapter 36: Investigating the Murder Case and Finding Clues
The next day, Su Yuexue went out early, and she planned to go to Ye Mochen to investigate the matter of the corpse. On the way, Su Yuexue saw many people with frightened faces and trembling all over her body, she felt very strange, so she walked up to a middle-aged man, patted him, and asked, "May I ask what happened here?" Why are you all so scared? ”
"Oh, girl, you don't know yet? Several people have died in the past few days, I heard that there are dried corpses that harm people or something, and those people's deaths are terrifying! We were all so scared, for fear that those dried corpses would come up, so I had better hurry home. After answering Su Yuexue's words, the middle-aged man trembled and ran away.
"I didn't expect that so many things have happened in the past few days since I came out, and there have been a lot of dried corpses last night, so are the people who died during this time really dead at the hands of these dried corpses, or are there people who take advantage of the chaos of dry corpses to take advantage of the opportunity to harm people? But I haven't seen those corpses either, so it's hard to make a conclusion, so let's go find the ice cubes first! Su Yuexue was a little distressed, she really didn't know how to find out about these things, she always felt that what happened would definitely not be accidental, someone must be behind it, but dried corpses are not so easy to cultivate, and a large number of dried corpses must be raised by someone at once, who will do it?
Su Yuexue thought about it carefully, she felt that this matter must be inseparable from Xiao Tianwang, but with Xiao Tianwang's ability, I am afraid that he will not be able to raise dry corpses, if he really has something to do with this matter, then who raised these dry corpses?
"Oh, I'm not very familiar with the relationship between the characters of this Xingyao Country, where should I start?" As soon as Su Yuexue said this, she saw a person wearing a black cloak walking in the alley not far from her, because of the distance and the fact that the person covered his head and covered his face, Su Yuexue couldn't see the person's appearance clearly, Su Yuexue just subconsciously felt that there was some kind of connection between that person and the dry corpse.
Thinking like this, Su Yuexue walked quickly into the alley and wanted to keep up with the person, but she bumped into a person as soon as she reached the corner.
"What are you doing here alone?" Su Yuexue looked up and saw that it was Ye Mochen, only to see him staring at her and opening his mouth in confusion.
"Bing Cube, you don't see anyone?" Su Yuexue thought that since Ye Mochen walked over from the other side of the alley, maybe he also saw that person.
"Who? I saw you little girl sneaking around here. Ye Mochen looked at Su Yuexue and replied.
"How can I be sneaky! Forget it, Bing Cube, why are you here? Su Yuexue heard Ye Mochen answer like this, which meant that he didn't see the person at the beginning, so she didn't ask much, but she was a little curious about how Ye Mochen came from there.
"You must have heard about what happened recently, this incident has caused panic among the people, and even the court officials are panicking all day long, so the emperor ordered me and Tianxuan to investigate this matter, and I went to find him." Ye Mochen replied truthfully, although he didn't want Su Yuexue to take care of this matter, but according to Su Yuexue's temperament, since she heard about it, she must have to take care of it, rather than hiding it from her, it is better for them to act together, so that they can take care of each other.
"So that's the case, then let's go find Brother Tianxuan." Su Yuexue said this and pulled Ye Mochen to find Xiao Tianxuan, but she stopped before she took two steps, usually Ye Mochen and Xiao Tianxuan are active together, so she doesn't know where Xiao Tianxuan is at all, in this case, it is better to let Ye Mochen lead the way.
Ye Mochen seemed to understand what Su Yuexue was thinking, and he grabbed Su Yuexue's hand and walked towards Xiao Tianxuan's mansion with her.
"Mo Chen, Yuexue, why are you together? I just wanted to go to you! As soon as Ye Mochen and Su Yuexue walked out of the alley, they saw Xiao Tianxuan walking in their direction.
"We also met by chance on the road, and we were about to look for you, but we didn't expect to run into it." Ye Mochen replied, "In that case, let's go to the Xugang prefect's mansion first, this case is handled by him, and the bodies that were killed are also in his mansion." Ye Mochen let go of Su Yuexue's hand and said to the two.
"Okay." "Okay." Su Yuexue and Xiao Tianxuan answered in unison, and followed Ye Mochen towards Xu's mansion.
Ye Mochen, Su Yuexue and Xiao Tianxuan walked through two alleys and three forks in the road, and finally came to the door of Xu's mansion, and Xu Gang stood at the door, as if waiting for the three of them.
"Lord Xiao, Lord Night, you are here, the lower officials heard that the two princes are coming to wait here, who is this girl?" Xu Gang saw Ye Mochen and Xiao Tianxuan hurriedly stepped forward and said respectfully, he glanced at Su Yuexue next to him and asked the two.
"She is Su Yuexue, the concubine of Shangshu Mansion, and she also came with us to investigate the case this time." Xiao Tianxuan replied.
"Oh, it turned out to be Miss Su, the lower official was clumsy and couldn't recognize it, so please don't blame Miss Su." Xu Gang nodded towards Su Yuexue, this face he didn't sell to Su Yuexue but her father Su Hang, besides, Su Yuexue and Ye Mochen and Xiao Tianxuan came together, so he must have a lot to do with them, so he had to say this.
"Lord Xu doesn't have to be polite, let's take us to see the corpse first." Su Yuexue smiled and said to Xu Gang.
"Yes, please come with the three officials." Xu Gang said and led the three of them to a small room next to a courtyard.
This room is damp and dim, it is obvious that the corpse is placed, Xu Gang took Ye Mochen, Su Yuexue and Xiao Tianxuan into the house and asked the subordinates to take a few candles for lighting.
Su Yuexue took the candle and walked to a corpse next to her, she slowly pulled the cloth covering the corpse, and sure enough, as she heard that the death of the corpse was very terrifying, there were scattered wounds on the face, neck, and heart, and the fatal wound was in the heart, and the depth of the wound made Su Yuexue a little unbearable to look at, although the heart was still there, the skin and flesh tissues were all dug up, and the means were extremely cruel, and it seemed that it was indeed done by those dry corpses, because ordinary people who were conscious should not be able to do this kind of thing. And the attack moves of those dried corpses yesterday were also aimed at Su Yuexue's heart, so Su Yuexue can roughly conclude that these dead people died from those dried corpses, so where did those dried corpses come from? If you can't find the source of the dried corpse, you can't catch the real murderer, because the dried corpse is just a tool for killing, and the problem is back to the beginning, which is really head-scratching.
Su Yuexue patted her head and tried to make her thoughts clearer, but a strange smell wafted from nowhere, Su Yuexue sniffed hard and found the source of the smell, which was a corpse next to her.
"Come here!" Su Yuexue approached the corpse and said to Ye Mochen and Xiao Tianxuan, Su Yuexue also wanted Xu Gang to come over, but looking at his trembling look, Su Yuexue immediately dispelled the idea.
"What's wrong?" Ye Mochen walked up to Su Yuexue and asked.
"Ice cubes, Brother Tianxuan, you smell it, this corpse seems to have a special smell." Su Yuexue said to the two, this smell is not only the smell of rotting flesh from the corpse, but mixed with a faint aroma.
"It's true, it seems to smell of sandalwood, but how can there be a scent of sandalwood on the corpse? And there are no other corpses, and it is too strange that only this one has this smell. Xiao Tianxuan sniffed when he heard this, and asked carefully, expressing his conclusions and doubts. This corpse is no different from other corpses, and the cause of death is no different, why does it emit the smell of sandalwood?
"You see, behind the ears of this corpse." Ye Mochen also smelled this smell, he turned the corpse over, took a candle and carefully observed the corpse, and found that there were five small red dots behind the ears of the corpse.
"Hey, what's this red dot? It looks like it's been scalded by something, and there's a little powder. Seeing this, Su Yuexue wanted to touch it with her hand, but Ye Mochen took her hand and took a square scarf from her body and gave it to her.
Su Yuexue smiled at Ye Mochen and took the scarf, she rubbed the back of the corpse's ear with the scarf and wiped off the powder, Su Yuexue put the scarf close to her nose and sniffed it, and found that the smell emitted by these powders was the smell she began to smell.
"Ice cubes, Brother Tianxuan, the smell of this powder is the smell of this corpse, but I can't smell what it is, and I don't know what the ingredients are." Su Yuexue said to Ye Mochen and Xiao Tianxuan.
"Let's go to the Tai Hospital first, and let the Tai Doctor see what these powders are." Xiao Tianxuan said.
Ye Mochen and Su Yuexue nodded at the same time, and then the three of them walked out of the room where the corpses were placed, intending to go to the imperial doctor to ask about the composition of these powders. Before leaving, Ye Mochen instructed Xu Gang to let him send someone to guard the house where the corpse was placed, and not let anyone else in.
"I didn't find anything special, but fortunately, I didn't gain anything at all." Walking out of the Xu Mansion, Su Yuexue walked backwards and said to Ye Mochen and Xiao Tianxuan with a smile.
"Well, thanks to Yuexue, if you hadn't found the clue, we might not have found any clues." Xiao Tianxuan said this, Su Yuexue lowered her head and was a little embarrassed, in fact, she didn't do anything, it's just that she was more sensitive to the smell and smelled a different smell, and it should be Ye Mochen who really found the clue.
"Actually, it's nothing, in the end these powders were found by ice cubes, I didn't expect you to be usually cold, but your observation is so strong." Su Yuexue looked at Ye Mochen and said, she really didn't expect Ye Mochen to be so observant, she thought that men were careless.
"It's nothing, it's just a coincidence." Ye Mochen said this, and then sped up and walked forward.
"Bing Cube, you wait for me, why are you walking so fast!" Su Yuexue saw Ye Mochen walking in front of her, so she immediately turned around and ran to catch up with Ye Mochen.
"You two are really..."Xiao Tianxuan was a little helpless, Su Yuexue and Ye Mochen didn't seem to be normal every time they got along, but what could he do, he didn't know when his brother's temperament would change He could only wait and see.
Xiao Tianxuan smiled, and when he was about to keep up with Su Yuexue and Ye Mochen, he found that there seemed to be someone behind him who was following him, he turned his head but there was no one, Xiao Tianxuan shook his head, thinking that maybe he was thinking too much, thinking so, he quickened his pace to catch up with Su Yuexue and Ye Mochen.