Chapter 18: The Rotting Corpse
Rong Zhouyi and Yun Luo never expected that it would be Chu Si'an and Zhang Lingchu who rushed over from the capital to help.
Zhang Lingchu's identity is quite special to both of them, his mother is Yunluo's master, and his father is Rong Zhouyi's uncle.
"Why is your father willing to let you out?" Rong Zhou also looked at Chu Si'an and smiled, caring like a big brother. His father, General Chu Shenjiu, became famous at a young age, but he didn't marry for a long time, and this child was named Si'an after he brought back from the temple.
Chu Si'an casually coped with a few sentences, looked at Yun Luo and snickered: "Is this girl easy to get along with?" I heard my dad say that she's not easy to deal with. He and Uncle Ning did not suffer less from her secret losses. ”
"It's okay, but what is the identity of this girl?" Yun Luo is the apprentice of the emperor's aunt, and it is not surprising to see General Chu and Ning Wangye, but she is not often in the mountains like this......
"Who knows, if you go to set a set of words about Brother Ling, maybe he knows."
The two looked at Zhang Lingchu, who was talking and laughing with Yun Luo at this time. This person's temperament follows his father's dislike to talk and looks at people coldly, but his face inherits the advantages of his father and mother - but countless women in the capital want to marry. It's rare to see him gentle, and it's surprising.
"Since you're all here, let's send troops into the mountains, right?" Rong Zhou was still thinking about the secret of the mountain in his heart, and Yun Luo also agreed: "I'll call Chuanchuan to come." ”
Taking advantage of this effort, he shared what he experienced in Luling with the other two people, and Chu Si'an asked with interest, "There are still such strange things?" ”
"But no, I'm just curious about what is in that mountain, and I want to know who this Heavenly Master is." Rong Zhou also looked at the backyard, and Yun Luo and Qing Chuan also walked out at this time.
Yunluo also deliberately changed her clothes, and it was rare to see her wearing a different color, but it looked even sweeter and cuter.
Chu Si'an took the token and mobilized the people who were guarding the city, and then entered the mountain with everyone. Following Gu Butterfly, they came all the way to the secret passage, and opened the stone door that had not been opened before.
"Wow......" Yun Luo stood at the stone gate with some surprise, behind this mountain was actually a stone field, as well as an exquisite house and a few rows of kang houses.
"What people!"
Chu Si'an immediately ordered the arrest of all the people involved, Yun Luo pointed to the people quarrying on the other side, and said, "Are these the missing people?" ”
Those people also looked at Shimen one after another, and when they saw the people in military uniforms, they immediately burst into tears: "We have been saved, and we are finally saved!" ”
The people rebelled, and it didn't take long for those who had been supervising and oppressing them to be subdued.
"Zhouzhou, is the sound of the bell the sound of them chiseling stones?" Yun Luo squatted on top of a large stone and looked up at him, Rong Zhou also snorted, squatted down and touched the stone: "Well, this is not an ordinary stone. This is ore, very valuable. ”
"Wow, isn't this whole mountain worth a lot?" Yun Luo's eyes lit up with stars, and Rong Zhou also took her off the stone, and said, "It's dirty here, be careful about your clothes, let's go to the house to have a look first." ”
"Uh-huh." Yun Luo obediently followed behind him, and Chu Shenjiu, who was commanding the soldiers on the side, was a little surprised: "What's the situation?" Doesn't it mean that this eldest lady has a bad temper? ”
Zhang Lingchu leaned over and flicked his forehead and said, "This girl's temper is gentler than my mother's." ”
"Really? Then my dad ......."
"Your dad said it was before she was six years old." Zhang Lingchu looked at the figure following behind others, and a slight trace of loss flashed in his eyes.
Rong Zhou also took Yunluo into this house, and the little girl couldn't help but exclaim: "This house is so rich, but it's a pity that it's built in the mountains." ”
"This should be the Heavenly Master's house, maybe others are hiding inside."
Hearing this, Yun Luo touched a few porcelain bottles from her waist and held them in her hands, looking like the current appearance of the enemy.
"What are you doing here?" Rong Zhou also looked at her like this and felt funny, and saw that the girl's clothes were a little wrinkled, so he naturally reached out and patted them flat.
"Self-defense, in case there are drugs or something, I'll use these drugs against them. Or if he meets Zhang Tianshi, if he cheats me, he will poison him. Yun Luo waved her hand, which made Rong Zhou also chuckle.
"It doesn't seem like there's anyone." Yeqi had already looked at the house along the roof, Yun Luo sighed boringly, and then silently put away the small porcelain bottle.
"Eh, do you smell it? The smell of corpses. Yun Luo waved her little hand in disgust, and Rong Zhou also shook his head and asked, "Which direction did it come from?" ”
She forced herself to sniff carefully, then pointed in the direction of the backyard and said, "Over there." ”
Several people hurried over, and the closer they got to the backyard, the more obvious the smell became, and finally they came to the front of a house. Several people looked at each other, Yun Luo was disgusting and Qing Chuan was afraid that it was too dirty. Rong Zhouyi and Yeqi were not afraid, so they raised their feet and pushed the door.
As soon as the two of them opened it, the stench rushed to their faces, and Yunluo and Qingchuan dodged a little farther away.
It took a long time for the two people inside to come out, and Rong Zhou also walked out for a long time to breathe in the fresh air, and then said: "That Heavenly Master is dead, it seems that he can be dead for several days, and his face is rotten." There is also a ...... on the corpse."
"Stop talking, it's disgusting." Yun Luo wrinkled a small face and stretched out a hand to gag his mouth.
At this time, Zhang Lingchu and Chu Si'an had already arranged the affairs in the stone field below, and all those 'overseers' were arrested, and these people also left their names and addresses to wait for the summons of the yamen.
"Little Luoer, men and women don't kiss." Zhang Lingchu reached out and grabbed Yun Luo's collar and brought the person to his side, and Rong Zhou also raised his eyes and glanced at him a little strangely.
Yunluo didn't resist either, and she didn't feel anything strange when she was dragged aside. looked up at Rong Zhouyi and said, "Let's go down the mountain?" Let the yamen go to the autopsy......"
"Well, Si'an, you send someone to the yamen and ask them to remove the body. I'm going to stay and find out if there are any other clues, he's died too strangely. Rong Zhou was also a little weird in his heart, looking at Yun Luo's well-behaved appearance towards others, he was inexplicably irritable.
Yun Luo hesitated for a while and said, "Then I'll stay and look for clues, you are so stupid that you probably can't find anything." ”
Rong Zhou also heard this, and the dark clouds dispersed a little, but Zhang Lingchu's eyes sank a little.
"Chuanchuan, give me the kite pollen...... Give it to him. Yun Luo thought about it, and she still waited for the smell to be in it.
Qingchuan turned over a bottle from the baggage and threw it to Rong Zhouyi, saying, "Clear the smell." "It was like a nail under his feet, and he didn't want to move even a step. Yunluo is just afraid of the taste, he can't stand it.
Ye Qi couldn't help but bared his teeth at him - how did he become like a noble young master?
Rong Zhou didn't care, he took the porcelain vase and went in and sprinkled a room, and soon the fragrance of flowers was overflowing, and Yun Luo ran in with small steps.
When she saw the corpse, she frowned slightly: "Kill with a knife...... Or from behind. ”
The man in Taoist clothes fell to the ground, and a knife was inserted from behind his chest cavity, and it was obvious that the man's purpose was to kill him.
"It's strange, he's been dead for almost twelve hours, and he shouldn't have rotted so thoroughly." Yun Luo touched his chin a little incredulous, this person's corrupted face couldn't be distinguished, but the eggs on the corpse proved that he hadn't been dead for four or five days, how could this be?
Rong Zhou also raised his hand to cover her eyes and said, "Don't look at it, let's go find the study." ”
Yun Luo was covered with her eyes and taken away, she reached out to grab his hand, and muttered, "What's so beautiful in the study, don't you want to know how he died?" ”
"That's what you have to do, and I won't let you see it again." Rong Zhou didn't know what he was doing this for, but he felt that a girl should watch less of such horror scenes.
Yun Luo finally pulled his hand off, shook his arm aside, and said, "Don't listen to you." Then he grimaced and staggered to the study.
Chu Si'an saw them coming out of the corpse room and followed, Zhang Lingchu paused and looked at Qingchuan: "She has ...... in the past few years."
"It's good, I'm very happy to eat, drink and have fun every day." There was even a hint of impatience in Qingchuan's faint tone, Zhang Lingchu nodded and looked in the direction of the courtyard and whispered, "That's good." ”
Yunluo opened the room from room to room, and she ran around and finally let her find the study.
"Come here." Yun Luo entered the study and rummaged through the bookshelves. The books in them were all ordinary books, and she was not interested in them after flipping through them for a while.
"Master, there are many letters here." Night Seven found a secret compartment on the wall, and there were many signed letters in the secret.
Yunluo also hurried over, and most of the contents of the letters were related to ores, and only one was related to Yunyangsan.
"Anping Chen Family ......"
Rong Zhou also put away the letter, and after searching in the study for a while, he found something wrong: "This study seems to be too clean, and there is nothing." ”
Yun Luo pouted and didn't think anything was wrong for a long time, and Ye Qi on the side interjected: "Master, there is a lack of account books." ”
"Yes, since the letter mentions that so much ore has been sold, it is impossible that there will not be a ledger. In this way, it seems that the account should have been taken by the murderer. Rong Zhou's mind turned, and he suddenly remembered: "Let's wait until after the autopsy, we seem to have saved some fewer people." ”
Yun Luo looked at him puzzled, Rong Zhou also pinched her face, and said, "It's not only men who have been deceived into the mountain, but also women." The people who were rescued in the stone field just now were all men, so where did the woman go? ”
"In such a big house, is there only the Heavenly Master who lives alone? Not half of the subordinates? Then someone must take care of food and clothing, right? ”
Rong Zhou has always felt that something is wrong with this house, and he suddenly remembered it in his mind just now.
Yun Luo was slightly surprised, looked at him and said, "But Ye Qi has already seen all the places, could it be that he didn't catch a few women in the first place, and he died one after another?" ”
"It's not that simple, haven't you already asked Xiaoliu to investigate the missing person, let's go back and ask first. Here, Si'an sent people to keep an eye on it, and he was not afraid of the people of the yamen doing tricks. ”
The timing of this false celestial master's death was too coincidental, and he died the day before they were about to enter the mountain? In the past few days, they have been waiting for reinforcements and have not moved, what did the people behind them kill Zhang Tianshi for?
Do you want to monopolize the mines, or for the missing women, or something else?