He paused, then said, "As for the matter of silk, let the inner court investigate." ”

From the case of Lushan Villa, to the possible hallucinogenic lychee cake, the strange things of Dandingguan, and the mysterious person who appeared out of thin air and pretended to be a Furong Zhai buddy but may be the murderer, to the official silver and silk silk...... The affairs of a sect seem to have nothing to do with each other, but if you think about it carefully, it is not difficult to find that this is the most common trick used by those people.

Because of the collapse of the Dong family's courtyard in Lushan, Dong Ruiyang was involved in the matter of making people use evil magic to make alchemy, and then they discovered the clues of the Xuanyang Daoist. Then, Dong Ruiyang died, and this clue was broken.

When they wanted to find the murderer who might have killed Dong Ruiyang, the clue pointed to the Protector's Mansion.

In addition, when they found the Danding faction, they wanted to find the Xuanyang Daoist along the vine, but there was a thrilling scene in the dark room.

Similarly, when they found out that the dim sum chef had a strange taste, which might be the person who caused Xiao Qinglang to fall into an illusion, the clue turned around and involved the official silver and the palace. If you make a bold guess, this clue is likely to point to the Protector's Mansion.

In other words, there are only two purposes for this incident. cut off their way to track down the Xuanyang Daoists, and at the same time implicate the Protector Marquis Mansion in the case.

The former purpose, Xiao Qinglang is easy to understand. But what is the reason for pulling the Protector's Mansion into the water?

Xiao Qinglang wrote down the name that was implicated in the Protector's Mansion, and finally slowly sketched a mark. And in the middle of the mark, it is the word "Aunt Hong".

After that, Xiao Qinglang looked at the list of lost children near the capital in recent years brought by Sikong Han, but found that there were more than a dozen children lost in the counties and villages near the capital in a few years. However, Jingzhao Yin Mansion and Dali Temple of the Criminal Department have not received any news at all, which is really a bit unreasonable.

"Lord Wang, Xia Guan went to Jingzhao Mansion to check, although there are reports of missing, but the number is not so much. But the people who lost their children in their families said that they had reported the crime. Therefore, the lower officials suspected that someone had intercepted the case files reported to Jingzhao Mansion by the county yamen. Or maybe someone deliberately suppressed those cases, so that the local yamen did not report the matter. ”

After Xiao Qinglang flipped through the roster, his eyes were cold, and he frowned and said: "In the fifty-sixth year of Xuanwen, twelve girls were lost in Changchang Town...... Such a big case, Jingzhao Mansion and the Three Law Divisions didn't know at all! ”

His voice was not loud, but the temperature was as cold as three feet to the bone.

"You lead someone to continue to investigate this matter, and you must find out the inside story. If necessary, you can go to the household department and the official department to read the file. ”

In the last years of the first emperor, there were so many children lost near the capital. And in the dark room of the Danding Temple, there are many unknown corpses and bones, and these things really can't make Xiao Qinglang not think of one place.

Thinking of Danding Guan, Xiao Qinglang's gaze turned to Tang Qiaozheng, "What about the person who was escorted back yesterday?" ”

Yesterday's trip to Dandingguan was accompanied by Tang Qiao, so this person was naturally guarded and personally interrogated by him.

"Back to the prince's words, that person has not spoken since he entered the Three Law Divisions. However, I have already asked the guardian of the Lushan Annexes to come and identify him, and I am sure that he is the Taoist disciple who gave the Xuanyang Daoist alchemy in the first place. ”

In fact, when Xiao Qinglang knew that the Danding faction still had a gatekeeper, he had already guessed that this gatekeeper must be the so-called Taoist disciple in the mouth of the guard. It's just that Xiao Qinglang doesn't know what kind of role he is.

The Danding faction has been in decline for decades, and he is the only one who is still conscientiously guarding in the mountains. He is partial to life, and he has no direction, but he can use the famous dim sum in the capital and drink rare good tea. To say that he is just a janitor is too far-fetched.

What's more, yesterday was all about it, and he knew very well about the white bones and coffins in the dark room of the Danding faction. If Xiao Qinglang's guess is right, he must often go into the dark room to arrange and clean, otherwise the ninth order of the dark room will definitely not be so clean and tidy, and the lights will always be on.

Thinking of this, Xiao Qinglang pondered for a moment and said: "Send someone to the Dong family to interrogate, it is necessary to find out the person who knew when the Xuanyang Dao person and Jingxu Shitai entered the Dong family's alchemy, and carefully interrogate if anyone knows the relationship between Jingxu Shitai and that Dao person yesterday." ”

"In addition, secretly looking for people to visit the Taoist sect in the capital. Since the development of Taoism, there are many sects, and they have been inextricably linked before. The Danding faction was also very prosperous back then, and there must be people in the Taoist sect who knew the inside story of the prosperity of the Danding faction back then. ”

Speaking of this, he suddenly paused, "Let Jingzhao Mansion send someone to assist the Criminal Department to investigate the whereabouts of the Taoists and Taoists who were still vulgar after the decline of the Danding Sect." ”

Normally, the Danding sect is a huge sect, and there must be countless Taoists and disciples when they are prosperous. Even if it declined, it was impossible to leave only the Jingxu Master, the Xuanyang Daoist, and the Gatekeeper Daoist overnight.

For the Taoist temples located on the outskirts of Beijing, most of the people who choose to practice under them are from poor backgrounds and their homes are near the capital. In addition, all those who enter Taoism or Buddhism must be recorded in a register under their door, and there will also be detailed records in the household department because they are exempt from taxes and military service. So it's a bit troublesome to track down, but it's not a needle in a haystack.

After Sikong Han got the word and left, Xiao Qinglang went to Danding Temple again with Xu Chu, Tang Qiaozheng and others.

Of course, this time, just in case, Aunt Chu also came with her.

Before the group and dozens of servants arrived at Dandingguan, they first took the special decoction made by Mrs. Chu to clear the mind and awaken the mind. Also out of prudence, she handed out a bag of Myojin's medicine and a handkerchief moistened with potion.

After such preparations, the group went back into the dark room.

When going down to the dark room, Xiao Qinglang specially asked the officials from the yamen to stay outside, and only selected a dozen or so people who came from the palace and went through life and death and the battlefield to come down together.

In addition, there is Aunt Chu's preparation in advance, so no one is in a hallucination anymore.

This time, Xu Chu and Xiao Qinglang clearly saw the scene in the dark room.

Because there is no such strange illusion as yesterday, the scene in the dark room is naturally exceptionally clear. In that ravine, there are indeed many white bones, which are very messy and abnormal.

Xu Chu only glanced at it, and concluded that most of those white bones were incomplete. What's more, these seem to be ...... by the length of the bones. All seem to be similar in length to the corpses found in the Dong family's courtyard.

In other words, she originally thought that the bones found in the Dong family's courtyard were typical cases within a case because there was the bones of a female Taoist. But now, it seems that that one case has involved two major cases.

Not only her, but also Xiao Qinglang knew that the scene at this time was very similar to the record in the book, and this kind of "human sacrifice" had been banned since the Great Zhou Dynasty. But I didn't expect that someone would do such a cruel thing.

The so-called human sacrifice, according to the "Notes of Lao Suo", is actually the use of living people as animals and other things used in sacrifices. Later, some people gradually took the opportunity to put on the cloak of religion and became the so-called tantric corpse spell.

"In addition to Cao's inspector, I also mobilized the servants of the Jingzhao Mansion Yamen in the capital to help. If you need to, the guards who came here today have all experienced bloody storms, so you just have to let them pick up the bones. ”

Seeing Xiao Qinglang's solemn expression, Xu Chu immediately took a deep breath, nodded and said, "There are too many white bones in the ravine, and most of them are chaotic, so I don't have to ask someone for help." After I have seen the corpses in the coffin, I will look at the white bones in the ravine, and if there are no other problems, I will have the white bones taken out one by one. ”

Xiao Qinglang saw that she had an idea in her heart, so she didn't say more. The two crossed the wooden bridge one after another, and walked to the side of the strange coffin with a heavy heart.

The coffin is still open and open, and inside is still a bright red palace dress, on which the gold and silver threads are embroidered with lifelike Luan bird patterns, gorgeous and noble.

Xu Chu took a deep breath, looked at Xiao Qinglang and said, "But do you want to start checking it now?" ”

Xiao Qinglang nodded slowly, frowned and looked at the coffin without saying a word.

The woman's face was covered with a thin veil, which made her face very ethereal and looming. But the original appearance was very clear, which made Xu Chu instantly think of the reports he had heard in his previous life about the thousand-year-old female corpse of the Mawangdui Han Tomb and the incorruptible ancient corpse of the Dangshan Ancient Tomb. According to the information released at the time, after the female corpse was unearthed, her face was clear, and all the tissues and organs were still intact.

Moreover, among all the ancient corpses excavated and unearthed, there are written records that there were soldiers who had obscene thoughts about beautiful ancient corpses when they dug graves. Although these things cannot be investigated, they also reflect that it is not impossible for corpses not to decompose for many years.

Although his thoughts were flying, Xu Chu's movements did not hesitate at all. Putting on gloves and a mask, she instructed someone to draw a picture of what was going on inside the coffin.

When everything was ready, she exhaled deeply, carefully removed the tulle from the corpse's face, and then removed the red palace dress from the female corpse.

It wasn't until the female corpse completely revealed her true face that Xu Chu quietly breathed a sigh of relief. I saw that although the face of the corpse was clear, the skin was dark and brown leather, that is, this was also a typical preservation corpse, not the woman who had just been killed as she had guessed before.

Unlike the peat tanned corpses found in Lotus Villa before, this time the corpses in the coffin were concave and convex, and there was no unusual posture. The hair is black and slender, the bun is neat, and the hair is decorated with a lot of gold and jade steps, living like a living person under the lamplight.

It can be seen that the deceased's face is yellow, and his skin is shriveled but undamaged.