"Someone, someone!" Lord Cao looked at his appearance of only wearing a middle coat, and he couldn't remember why he slept in bed last night.

"My lord, my lord, what's wrong?"

Lord Cao's personal guards ran in, looking at several adults who slept until the third pole of the sun with an inexplicable expression, not to mention anything else, just the habit of his family that must sleep for seven hours this night, which cannot be stopped when the king of heaven comes.

"Last night, Lord Ben was obviously waiting for the signal with the princess to get someone, why did he lie on the bed and fall asleep? What about the princess? Lord Cao went down to the ground with his cloak on as he spoke.

"Your Excellency, you really don't remember anything?" The little official pointed to his head and spoke with a questioning face.

"Nonsense! Does the official know that he still needs to ask you? Is.... Confused! Lord Cao looked angry, and pointed at the little official is counted, and the little official opened a pair of innocent big eyes, and looked at Lord Cao for a while.

"My lord, the princess kept vigil all night last night before going back. But my lord, aren't you afraid that the prince will come back and pick up your skin? I slept so soundly, but the princess didn't blink all night! ”

Lord Cao listened to the words of the little official, and silently pinched a handful of guilty sweat in his heart, who made his health regimen too punctual, and he would sleep when he arrived?

"My lord, my lord, oh no! Master Zhou of the Criminal Department is here. The guards came in panting from outside and shouted at Master Cao.

Lord Cao was in a subtle embarrassing situation at the moment, and when he heard the guard's words, he was dissatisfied: "What are you yelling about early in the morning? Lord Zhou came when he came, that's a good thing, how can you say that it's not good when Lord Zhou comes! ”

"My lord! Something happened, and there was a life case in the east of the city! ”

Cao Zheng had a stirring spirit in his heart, and sure enough..... Is it inevitable to avoid it?

Cao Zheng hurriedly changed into his official robe, walked to the hall, looked at Zhou Min sitting in the hall with a straight face, and walked in quickly.

"Lord Zhou, but we sent someone to keep an eye on it.... Something went wrong? There was a rare look of worry in Cao Zheng's eyes.

Although they arranged for men to stay at the women's homes last night, they still failed to protect the lives of the women, and their short lives ended hastily, making everyone who heard it sad and sad.

The body was carried to Dali Temple, Fan Li was invited to Dali Temple for autopsy, looking at the corpse covered with a white cloth on the ground, Fan Li was a little afraid to uncover, let alone look at the faces of those women.

Yesterday, they discussed together, saying that their brothers were strong in martial arts, and let them sleep peacefully, but who knows.... After this sleep, he never woke up.

The corpse had no other wounds, except for a large black hole in the chest, apparently the heart had been dug out alive, and the strange thing was that each person had a different pattern on the center of the eyebrows.

Fan Li looked at the past, the four corpses, all of them were people who had lost their clothes a few days ago, and there were clusters of small flower-like plants with different patterns painted with cinnabar on their foreheads, and the cause of death was caused by a large hole in the chest, and the heart was dug out, and there were no other wounds on the body, and the murderer was obviously the same person.

In the palace, Le Zhengyu listened to Fan Li's report, looked at the autopsy results, and secretly thought in his heart, and the words of the grass-like pattern attracted Le Zhengyu's attention.

Fan Li is not good at painting, so the lines of the pattern drawn are not smooth, almost soaked in ink into a piece of black, can only see about what kind of ordinary grass and trees, the general outline is about the same, Le Zhengyu only considered how the murderer quietly dug out the heart of the person, and did not care about the graffiti-like flowers and plants.

"In this way, a total of four women were killed last night, did the government issue an obituary? Did the family come and claim the body? Le Zhengyu asked casually, after all, if it was in the past, the family would have been crying in front of the yamen, but now looking at this, there is no movement.

"Master, those women were all killed last night because their parents and relatives died early, living alone at home." Fan Zhuo's voice sounded, and Le Zhengyu turned around.

"That's the murderer staring at a woman who lives alone..."

"And as far as I can guess, they are all specially selected young women, who have not yet been married, and have not violated them, and have dug out their hearts alone, judging from the shape of the wounds, they are about to become more and more skilled, and kill with one move." Fan Li explained the autopsy in detail again.

"But, Master, we sneaked into the place where the murderer might have committed the crime last night, and no one else knows about it except the deceased himself and us! The women are dead..."

Listening to Fan Ye's words, Le Zhengyu's eyes suddenly lit up, "Fan Ye, you say... All dead... But Cuiqing didn't die, she still just lost her clothes. ”

"Yes.... Yes... Master, why do I think this case is so weird? Fan Zhuo couldn't help but rub his arm, and looked at the big sun outside and shuddered.

"There must be other breakthroughs in this case, Fan Ye, tell me in detail about what you heard last night." Le Zhengyu stared at Fan Ye, and Fan Ye hurriedly told the inconspicuous episode last night again.

"We need to go to Dali Temple again, and there are some things that we may need to see in person to make new discoveries." Le Zhengyu said and walked out beside him, and Fan Li hurriedly caught up with a few people behind him.

When he arrived at Dali Temple, Lord Cao of Dali Temple went to the Criminal Department, and Le Zhengyu asked the little official to lead the way to the place where the body was parked.

There were still a few corpses covered with white cloth on the ground, they were neatly arranged, lying quietly on the ground, Le Zhengyu put on the mask handed over by Fan Li, put on the sheepskin gloves, and lifted the white sheet covering the corpse.

"Master, that's... That.... Why is the mark on the forehead missing? Didn't you say that it was dotted with cinnabar? What's going on now? ”

Fan Zhuo was the first to rush forward, stretched out his hand and pointed at the corpse's smooth forehead, and grew his mouth in surprise, Fan Li was also stunned, Le Zhengyu lifted the white cloth to the side, and said lightly: "We are still a step late." ”

After reading the corpse, Le Zhengyu flipped through the confession of the only survivor Cui Qing in his hand, and looked at it several times, Le Zhengyu always felt that something was wrong, and then his eyes turned to the corpse, where Fan Ye was carefully examining the wounds of the deceased, and Le Zhengyu's heart suddenly became transparent.

"Fan Ye, you said that you heard the sound of Cuiqing drinking water on the ground yesterday?"

In such a silent morgue, Le Zhengyu opened his mouth suddenly, startling several people who were next to the corpse, such a soft and rapid female voice couldn't help but be a little weird in their ears, like the sound of a corpse on the ground.

Fan Ye turned his head to look at Le Zhengyu, whose eyes were a little shining, and nodded subconsciously: "Yes!" I saw the lights on the roof last night, and then I heard the sound of the Cuiqing girl getting out of bed to drink water, and the sound of tea cups clashing is definitely not wrong. ”

"But how are you sure.... The sound of drinking water must be Cuiqing? ”

As soon as Le Zhengyu's words fell, Fan Zhuo grabbed Fan Li's sleeve violently, and looked like a ghost, which provoked Fan Li to kick him a few times, it was really a useless thing, but Fan Zhuo looked at him with a pair of pitiful big eyes and said, "Big brother, I'm afraid!" ”

Le Zhengyu ignored the actions between the two of them, and continued to look at Fan Ye and said: "Cuiqing's confession did not mention that he got out of bed in the middle of the night to drink water, although Lord Cao of Dali Temple seems unreliable, but I believe that when he recorded his confession, he must have only asked more, not less, and he would confirm it again and again before signing and drawing it." ”

"Master, could it be that the Cuiqing girl doesn't remember what she did when she got up in the middle of the night? Or maybe she has a habit of sleepwalking... Maybe? Fan Yu, who had not made a sound, spoke.

"Yes, I heard the sound of Miss Cuiqing getting out of bed and drinking water and then going to bed last night!" Fan Ye added.

"How are you sure Cuiqing is in bed?" Le Zhengyu asked.

"Because I heard the bed swaying slightly." Fan Ye carefully recalled the sound he heard last night, yes, it was the sound of going to bed.

"However, among ordinary people, Cuiqing girl is slender, how can she make such a loud noise if she goes to bed, according to the official population report, Cuiqing's family is not a family that needs to be thrifty, and a stable bed must be placed in a boudoir like that, how can it be easy to make a sound?" Fan Li listened to Fan Ye's words and made an appropriate rebuttal.

"Because, at that time, the people who went down to the ground to drink water.... It's not Cuiqing! Le Zhengyu put down the file and looked at them and spoke.

"How so?" Fan Ye asked unconsciously.

Under the gaze of everyone, Le Zhengyu slowly spoke: "In this Dali Temple, there are moles!" ”

"What? Princess, do you say that there is a mole in my Dali Temple? How is this possible, these people are all brought by me personally, everyone's identity is reliable, all have detailed information, our prince is rigorous, that is, the soldiers patrolling at the gate of the city are all registered, and all traces can be followed. ”

In the official hall, Lord Cao opened his mouth with a questioning and panicked face, saying that the people around him were quite protective of each other, obviously not believing how the people around him could hide the murderer's helpers? That's weird, too.

"Then Lord Cao, do you know who wiped the marks off the foreheads of the four corpses? Isn't it you, the Dali Temple, who has also entered the thieves in broad daylight? Nothing else is stealing, nothing else, and the mark on the deceased's head is erased! ”

Listening to Le Zhengyu's irrefutable words, the corners of Lord Cao's mouth tightened, and then said: "Princess, arrest this guy who has ruined the reputation of the official!" ”

Seeing that Lord Cao, who was still looking like a calf protector, changed his face so quickly, everyone present was embarrassed, what did Lord Cao fall in love with, this face turned faster than turning a book!

"Lord Cao, don't worry, doing this kind of thing will show your feet sooner or later, the person who got out of bed to drink water last night was not Cuiqing, if Cuiqing drank water, then why did he just make a noise when he got into bed, why didn't Cuiqing make a sound when he got out of bed?

What's more, the light is on first, if Lord Cao sleeps at night, will he sleep with the lamp in his arms? It must not be, according to the normal procedure, whether Cuiqing is awake or sleepwalking, he will get out of bed first, then take the lamp, and finally drink water. ”

After listening to Le Zhengyu's words, Fan Ye suddenly realized, it was really suspicious, then it was....