023. Inexplicable Violent Death
After lunch, Qing Ming was about to say goodbye to Yun Hui Shangshu, but before he could stand up, the housekeeper of Shangshu Mansion didn't care about informing him, so he rushed directly into the hall, knelt on the ground, and shouted in panic: "My lord! Oh no! Go and take a look! Xiao Si died suddenly! Seven orifices were bleeding! Ah! It's terrifying!"
Everyone was shocked, Yun Hui settled down, and immediately asked the housekeeper to lead the way to check on the servant named Xiaosi. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info He died in his bedroom, and sure enough, it was bleeding from seven holes, and his death was ugly.
Yun Hui asked the housekeeper and the onlookers, "Has Xiao Si been doing anything wrong lately?"
A servant who was in the same room with Xiao Si said tremblingly: "He took the Mingxin Pill! I haven't taken it for the past two days, he is unwell, just now, he suddenly went crazy, scratching and pulling on his body, and then, suddenly, he fell there, out of breath!"
Yun Hui shouted: "Nonsense! That Mingxin Pill is rumored to be very expensive, how can this guy afford it?"
The servant fell to his knees with a thud, fell to the ground, and said tremblingly: "The little one is not talking nonsense! My lord! The little four told the little one before that a noble person gave him the Ming Heart Pill to eat, one pill a day, and he was proud all day long about this matter!"
Yun Hui frowned, pondered for a moment, turned around and said to Qing Ming with a slight apology: "Your Royal Highness the Prince, there has been a sudden change in the family, and the official cannot continue to accompany you, and the hospitality is not good, please forgive Your Highness!"
Qing Ming understood that this was the host's house thanking the guests, so he arched his hand and said, "I'm bothering you, Lord Shangshu, we are leaving." I'll come back another day and ask for advice!"
Yun Hui said in his heart that this young man was also sensible, so he sent Yun Chuan to be in charge of sending off the guests, and he took Yun Shi to continue to interrogate the servants.
Walking to the gate, Qing Ming asked Yun Chuan to hurry back to the house to assist Lord Shangshu, but Yun Chuan looked depressed and muttered: "With my brother here, my father is enough." Then, he squeezed out a smile and said, "Then, please be more careful on the road, senior brother, there have been rumors of the strange case of soul theft in the dungeon of the Criminal Department in Kyoto recently, and people are panicking." Senior brother is free, waiting for his return at any time, and when the time comes, I will introduce you to my brother's strange animals!"
When Qing Ming heard this, he looked at him when he talked about Yun Shi's animals, he looked quite proud, thinking of all kinds of small animals in the bamboo house, he couldn't help but gasp, and had to smile and nod reluctantly.
Bidding farewell to Shangshu Mansion, Qing Ming and his entourage hurried back to the Chengnan Courtyard, and the day before, they made an appointment with General Xuesheng and met in the Courtyard in the afternoon. Qing Ji, who was bored in the mountains south of the city, also joined their team, he thought that he was senior and knowledgeable, but he didn't take the case of the Criminal Department in his eyes, seeing that Qing Ming was so enthusiastic, he had always scoffed, at this time he was lazy, if there was nothing else important to do, he didn't bother to pay attention to it!
After clearing the servants around them, and only the five people left in Qingming, they sat down separately and began to gather information.
General Watari had not had a chance to inspect it in detail before, so he took out the piece of cloth from the sleeve of his robe, and when he looked at it intently, he couldn't help but exclaim: "Snake skin!"
So, I hurriedly handed it to everyone for circulation.
Long Xing opened his clothes, and the butterfly black spirit shook its wings and flew to the back of Long Xing's chair to stop, its small black eyes staring hard at the snakeskin. Suddenly, Long Xing told everyone that the pattern that the black spirit said was definitely the pattern of the little flower snake he saw that night!
"In this way, Shangshu Mansion must be inseparable from the criminal department dungeon case!" Qing Ming said confidently.
The other three all nodded in agreement. Only Qing Ji, it was the first time he saw the black spirit, he glanced at it arrogantly, and muttered: "Oh! This is the butterfly that is rumored to be the culprit? So small! Hey, what kind of artifact should I be! You people, I really don't have knowledge, I don't know how many strange things I have seen in my father's place, hum!"
The people next to him ignored Qingji, he felt bored, closed his mouth, and sat coldly.
General Shen Sheng pondered for a long time, and said in a skeptical tone: "Soul stealing is a forbidden technique of the Xuantian Dao, but it does belong to the advanced kung fu in soul alchemy. If it is said that Yun Hui Shangshu is in the mansion, such skills, I am afraid that even Yun Hui Shangshu will not be able to reach it, only, only ......"
He seemed extremely reluctant to say the name.
Qing Ming said softly: "Brother Yun Shi?"
The general did not say a word, indicating acquiescence.
General Watari shook his head vigorously: "No, it's impossible! Senior Brother Yun Shi has profound skills, but he has a clean reputation since he was a child, in the past, we cultivated together, and his subordinates know a little bit about his virtues, he is quite open-minded, and he never takes any shortcuts for practice, otherwise he will not be able to be recognized by the elders at a young age and win the title of soul refiner! If these shameless acts are his doing, I don't believe it!"
Qing Ming thought about it and said, "General Dusheng, don't worry, of course we can't just rely on a snake skin to determine that it was Brother Yun Shi's doing. It can only be said that the snake has been in and out of Yun Huishangshu's mansion, and for some reason in the bamboo forest, it has lost its skin, and what remains is still a broken fragment. ”
At this moment, there was a noise in the courtyard, and Du Sheng went out to visit, it turned out that Yang Yong had just returned from his house at the bottom of the mountain, and hurriedly, without saying a word, he went straight into the house to find the nobles, and the housekeepers and servants were not allowed, because their master, General Gengsheng, had instructed them to discuss important matters in the inner room, and no one was allowed to enter without permission. Yang Yong couldn't say clearly, he was anxious for a while, and yelled.
It turned out to be a misunderstanding, so Du Sheng led Yang Yong into the house.
As soon as he entered the house, he said eagerly: "Your honor! Oh no! Something big has happened to our Yangjia Village!"
Qing Ming hurriedly comforted him: "Don't worry, Brother Yang, speak slowly!"
Yang Yong gasped and couldn't calm down for a while: "We are there, the landlord's family, the son of the old Yang head landlord, suddenly went crazy and died!"
Qing Ming involuntarily stood up, and General Watari blurted out and asked, "Is the Seven Orifices bleeding?"
Yang Yong nodded again and again: "Exactly! Today, the noble man didn't need me to accompany him when he went out, so I went home to visit my relatives, and met the landlord's family on the way, saying that his son was sick and wanted to go to the city to buy medicine, but his son suddenly went crazy, ran around, yelled, grabbed his chest, grabbed a lot of blood, and then, suddenly, he lay on the ground and died!"
Qing Ming turned his head and said to the research student: "General, this symptom is exactly the same as the servant we saw in Shangshu Mansion!
The student nodded: "It's so weird!"
Qing Ming thought for a while, and said to Yang Yong: "Brother Yang, you come to lead the way, let's go to the landlord's house to have a look!"
The research student and the dusheng exchanged a look, and they both smiled slightly, they seemed to be quite satisfied with Qing Ming's sense of determination.
The group came to the landlord's house of Lao Yangtou, and the crying in the house shook the sky, and it was a mess. finally found the old Yang Tou, who had already cried into tears, he was supported by others, and he reluctantly kowtowed silently.
Qing Ming explained his intentions and recounted how they encountered a similar incident that day. When Lao Yang heard this, he rubbed his eyes with his sleeve, beat his spirit, and asked, "What? Is it true that my son was killed by someone's intention?"
After he eased up a little, Qing Ming asked, "Is there anything unusual about your son recently?"
Lao Yang Tou whimpered: "Death is dead, what else is there to hide! Don't hide it from the nobles, our family has saved a lot of money over the years, and now the Mingxin Pill is popular in the bazaar, it is said that it can fix the soul and calm the soul, and the miraculous effect is incomparable, we are Aluminum people, there are not many people who practice Gonggong, so I have always thought about it, I will train my son well, so I will spare no expense to buy Mingxin Pill to take." ”
He gasped and rested for a while, and continued: "That medicine really works, my son is getting stronger day by day, I was going to send him to find a soul refiner to learn the arts, but I don't want to, a few days ago, the Mingxin Pill was suddenly out of stock! I can't buy it anywhere! My son is not feeling well, and after staying up for these two days, suddenly, suddenly, suddenly ......."
When Qing Ming heard this, his heart became more and more nervous, it turned out that once this Mingxin Pill was taken, it could not be broken, which was no different from the drugs he had heard of in the Tao of the world, which was addictive, destroyed in the involuntary desires of his body, and behind it was the manipulator who made a fortune. It was so cruel! Before he knew it, he clenched his fists, and a fire of ignorance ignited in his chest.
After understanding the situation and returning to the other courtyard, everyone fell into deep thought along the way, and everyone was silent.
After returning to the room, Qing Ming paced back and forth, the student was silent, and Du Sheng kept rubbing his hands, Qing Ji was no longer the one who didn't care about it, it seemed that he was beginning to be interested, and he began to think about the problem, but as soon as he thought about it for a while, he patted his head vigorously and said angrily: "Oops! It's messy, I don't understand! Headache! I don't care!"
No one paid any attention to him, and the room fell silent again.
After a long time, General Watari spoke first: "There were two violent deaths in a short period of time, and the symptoms were the same, both of them were Mingxin Pills. It can be seen that there must be something wrong with the Mingxin Pill, and the vendors selling the Mingxin Pill in the bazaar must be investigated immediately!"
Qing Ming nodded, thoughtfully, and said to him: "Mingxin Dan has to investigate, however, I think the recent messy things seem to have something in common, and the two cases just coincide in time, it's really too much of a coincidence!"
Before he could understand, he looked at him suspiciously, and General Yusheng's eyebrows stretched slightly, nodded slightly, and echoed: "Yes, I've been thinking about this question just now. First of all, for a period of time, there have been continuous violent deaths of prisoners in the middle of the night, but that night, the black spirit went to the dungeon at night, turning the criminal department upside down, and after that, the Mingxin Pill, which has been selling well in the market, suddenly ran out of stock, and the addicted people who couldn't buy the Mingxin Pill died violently one after another!"
Qing Ming looked at him gratefully, as if he was looking at his bosom friend affectionately.
Only then did General Watari notice the connection between the two series of cases: "Then, in other words, the production of the Mingxin Pill is to use the soul stolen from the prisoner!
After Qingji, Long Xing and Yang Yong who were present heard General Watai's clear statement, they suddenly realized, Long Xing's mouth opened wide, Yang Yong clenched his fist with his right hand, hit him hard in his left palm, and scolded: "It's too bad! It's really bad!"