Hearing this, Ji Sanniang was already furious, and was about to go out as she spoke, "Damn cheap slave." I will kill them and bury them with Ah Ling. ”

Seeing this, the county lord of Qingyang hurriedly grabbed her, "Sanniang is calm, even if you kill them, Ah Ling will not be able to come back to life, what you have to do now is to find out why Ah Ling fell into the water." ”

Everyone in Minshan Wangfu was distracted by the death of the Lingjun Lord, especially the Jiaohua brothers, who only wanted to bring their sister's body back quickly, and they had not yet delved into why the Lingjun Lord fell into the water.

Jiao Hua held back his sadness, calmed down and began to arrange various matters, and when he finished arranging, King Minshan rushed back.

After seeing his daughter's corpse, King Minshan's heart was like a knife, and he was so grief-stricken that he was about to kill those servants who served his daughter, and Jiao Hua used the words of the county lord of Qingyang to persuade him.

He personally interrogated the personal servant of the Lord of Lingjun and the servants of the other courtyard, according to Ping'er, the personal servant of the Lord of Ling, the Lord of Lingjun was awakened by a nightmare in the middle of the night, and then made a noise to go to the lotus pond to see the lotus.

At first, she and another maidservant, Lu'er, accompanied her, but the Lord of Lingjun refused to let them accompany them, and drove them away under the threat of betrayal. Originally, they were waiting not far from the lotus pond, but after waiting for a long time, they didn't see the spirit lord leave the lotus pond.

Later, they somehow fell asleep, and when they woke up, it was already dawn, and Lord Lingjun was not by the lotus pond. They thought that Lord Lingjun had gone back to her room to rest, so they went to her room and found that she had not come back at all.

The two maids panicked, and hurriedly led people to search for the whereabouts of the master in the other courtyard, but the other courtyard was almost turned upside down, and no figure of the Lingjun Lord was found.

Later, Ping'er thought that the last time they saw Lord Ling was by the lotus pond, and wondered if Lord Ling would fall into the lotus pond. Thinking of this, the two of them were so frightened that they hurriedly asked people to go to the lotus pond to find someone.

Unexpectedly, she really found Lord Lingjun in the lotus pond, but she was already lifeless at that time.

The family who first found the body of the county lord of the spirit recalled: "The water in the lotus pond only reached the waist of the villain, and when the villain found the county lord, the county lord's hands and feet were tightly entangled by the aquatic plants in the lotus pond. ”

If it weren't for being entangled in water and weeds, maybe the county lord wouldn't have died.

King Minshan was silent for a long time after listening to the words of the family, and then went to the palace. I don't know what he said to Emperor Yuanhe, Emperor Yuanhe immediately called Dali Temple Qing after hearing it, and asked Dali Temple to come forward to investigate the case of the drowning of the Lingjun Lord.

This clearly tells the people of the world that the death of the Lingjun Lord was murdered by others.

Lord Qing Fang of Dali Temple is really a headache, the county lord of Yongan County on the Dragon Boat Festival was killed, and only four months later, another noble daughter of the clan died.

A county lord, a county lord, are both fifteen or sixteen years old, it's a pity!

Emperor Yuanhe ordered that before finding out the real culprit, it was strictly forbidden to spread the news of the murder of the Lingjun Lord.

Dali Temple, Minshan Palace, Changxing Palace, and the Ji family all kept silent.

Zuo Chengyan Li of Dali Temple was ordered to investigate the case, and he found a unicorn jade pendant by the lotus pond where the Lingjun Lord was killed.

The unicorn jade pendant is transparent and lush, the carving is good, and the owner who wears it is either rich or expensive. He took the jade pendant to Ping'er and Lu'er for identification, and the two maids said that they had never seen it, and it should not be the Lingjun Lord's thing.

He also asked the rest of the Minshan Mansion to identify it, but no one came out to claim it.

Yan Li had no choice but to temporarily store the jade pendant as evidence in Dali Temple, and after obtaining the consent of the king of Minshan, he ordered the body of the Lingjun lord to be examined.

After examination, he found that the body of the Lingjun Lord was swollen, but there were no traces of sediment in the gaps between his mouth, nose and nails, and there were no signs of drowning.

From this point of view, it is very likely that Lord Lingjun was thrown into the lotus pond after his death.

Yan Li remembered the red-clothed female corpse found in the river after the Dragon Boat Festival, and the death symptoms were almost the same as those of the Lingjun Lord, who was tied up with stones and sank into the water after her death, while the Lingjun Lord was bound by aquatic plants with her hands and feet.

The two cases are so similar that it's hard not to wonder if the same person was the case. The corpse of the woman in red has not been claimed so far, and it is not known whose daughter she is.

Yan Li felt that if he found out the real culprit who killed the Lingjun Lord, he might be able to solve the case of the corpse of the woman in red, and then he would be able to know her identity.

But he strictly interrogated the subordinates who served the Lord of Ling, and there were no useful clues except for the unicorn jade pendant. There was no progress in the case for several days, and the people from Minshan Wangfu came to urge several times, and Yan Li couldn't help but have a headache.

Just when he was at a loss, a new clue appeared in front of him.

The new clue points directly to the Wei family's grocery store in Qingshui Town.

The shopkeeper of the Wei family's grocery store is Wei Tiezhu and Wei Changgui's father and son. They used to be dredging workers in the Weishui River, and they were the first to find the body of the woman in red.

When Yan Li brought someone to the door, Wei Changgui was entertaining guests in his grocery store. After Yan Li revealed his identity, Wei Changgui hurriedly welcomed people in.

"I wonder what the big is looking for the little one?"

Yan Li glanced at him and asked directly, "Do you know the shopkeeper Song of Fuxiang Gold Shop?" ”

Wei Changgui's smile froze, and he subconsciously wanted to say that he didn't know him, but Yan Li saw his strangeness at a glance.

"Presumably you also know that Shopkeeper Song was hacked to death by two foreigners, and according to their explanations, the reason why Shopkeeper Song was killed was to buy a gold bracelet inlaid with rubies from you."

Hearing this, Wei Changgui's face turned pale, and he suddenly felt weak and weak. Yan Li ordered someone to bring Wei Changgui and Wei Tiezhu back to Dali Temple, and there was no need to ask Xing, the father and son would give a full explanation.

The heavy rain after the Dragon Boat Festival caused the lower reaches of the Weishui River to be blocked, and Wei Changgui followed Wei Tiezhu to dredge the river and salvage dead branches and leaves.

After this kind of encounter, Wei Changgui didn't want to desilt anymore, so he focused on salvaging jewelry. But where is there so much good thing? Wei Changgui thought that the gold earrings were salvaged from the bottom of the river, and maybe there were some windfalls below.

So he took advantage of the good water to get into the Weishui River and found a female corpse below. The moment he first found the female corpse, Wei Changgui was so frightened that he almost lost his soul, but when he saw the bracelet shining with gold on the female corpse's wrist, he became greedy.

He swam to the female corpse, removed the bracelet inlaid with rubies, and was about to leave when he saw a gold earring on the right ear of the female corpse, which was exactly the same as the one he had salvaged, so he took it away.

In the past few years, the father and son have dredged up the Weishui River and salvaged a lot of jewelry and gold, the most important and valuable are the gold bracelets and gold earrings obtained from the corpse of a woman.

After getting these things, he hid them at home for two months, and when he saw that the corpse of the woman in red had not been claimed, he secretly sold the things and made a big windfall.

With this money, the Wei father and son stopped working as dredgers, and they set up a grocery store in the town and made a living as a business.