The first year of the double saints, spring.

Empress Shen'an instructed the king of Yunjiang to open private markets in Yunjiang and the Xihungarian border pass, and caravans from all over the Great Zhou began to pour into Yunjiang.

Just when the mutual trade was in full swing -

After more than a year, Yunjiang has another major case that shocked the government and the opposition.

A Great Zhou caravan, after doing business at the border pass, was attacked by evil ghosts on the way back to Beijing through the dragon slope, and five people were killed at the same time, their brains were cracked, and their bodies were covered with purple-red ghost patterns, and their deaths were extremely hideous and terrifying.

More than 100 people in the caravan scattered and fled for their lives.

Because this caravan is the largest caravan from the capital recently, the people who fled for their lives also reported this strange murder case of "ghosts" back to the capital as quickly as possible.

It also alarmed Dali Temple and Beiya.

Cutting the dragon slope was originally the only way for the Great Zhou to lead to Yunjiang, but seven years ago when the dragon slope was slashed, the Yun country and the Great Zhou soldiers fought to the death here, and the first general of the cloud country lost fiercely, and was beheaded by Xu Yuanda, the prince of the town country.

Even Chu Yan, who was still the grandson of the Great Zhou Emperor at that time, almost died here.

Tens of thousands of soldiers from Yun and Zhou died in the battle of the dragon slope, so that the dragon slope was deeply resentful, and according to legend, there was also the blessing of the magic circle laid by the national teacher of the previous dynasty.

This time, there was such a bizarre murder case, and the whole country was talking about it.

Some people say that this is because the soldiers of Yunguo who died in the war have not been cleared of their anger and have been disturbed by the lively popularity, so they will run out to make trouble. They picked the caravan in the capital to attack, it must be to avenge the hatred of the country that year. In the long run, it will definitely affect the border market and the national fortunes.

Some people also say that this is the resurrection circle set up by Sheng Kun, the former national teacher of the dynasty, for himself in advance, as long as enough people die in this array, with the soul as a sacrifice, he can be resurrected again.

Others say that they saw Emperor Er, who was full of arrows, wandering around the Dragon Cutting Slope, vowing to kill all the Great Zhou people who passed through here, just as he had cursed the Chu clan when he cut off their children and grandchildren.

Powerful ghosts, Sheng Kun, Emperor Er, national fortune.

These words, any one you can say, are enough to make the people panic.

In the yamen of Yunjiang, the level of work is limited, and the most fearful of ghosts and gods is that even if the state government orders a heavy reward, no one dares to touch the five corpses.

The impact of this case was far-reaching, and the state government reported the news to the Yunjiang Palace, and in desperation, Yun Yu rushed eight hundred miles and wrote to Shen Lingxi, the empress of Shen'an, hoping that the emperor would send an envoy to Yunjiang to help solve the case.

Five days later, the carriage of the envoy of the capital slowly arrived at the Cutting Dragon Slope.

Because early in the morning, Yunjiang Wang Yunyu personally took the golden chariot out of the city and went to the dragon slope to greet him.

The people of the entire Yunbian City are speculating that the envoy who came to help solve the case from the imperial capital this time may be the Shen'an Empress Shen Lingxi herself.

In the past year, Empress Shen'an has been in charge of the Criminal Department, Beiya and Dali Temple, and in just a few months, there have been hundreds of cases rehabilitated by her hands, and many old unsolved cases have been solved.

Such a bizarre case involves Yunjiang, and also involves the new border trade policy that she hand-picked and implemented, and Queen Shen'an will never sit idly by.

Only with the identity of Empress Shen'an can the King of Yunjiang personally go to the Dragon Slope to greet her.

Therefore, in order to be able to witness the face of Empress Shen'an again, the legendary evil places such as the Dragon Slope were densely packed with people who came to worship early in the morning.

When the wide carriage in which the envoy rode passed through the crowd and slowly stopped in front of the makeshift morgue at the scene of the crime, the noisy crowd was silent for an instant.

Countless pairs of eyes were looking in the direction of the carriage with hope.

Yunjiang Wang Yunyu walked down from the golden bridle, his dark eyes swept over the crowd, and his handsome face was as calm as water, without the slightest wave.

He walked up to the envoy's carriage and was about to ask him to get out of it—

"Boom, boom, boom......"

Suddenly, there was a loud sound of horses' hooves in the distance.

Yun Yu turned his head to look and saw someone coming, and a trace of surprise flashed in his eyes.

But then, there was a little clarity in his eyes.

A young general in silver armor and a red cloak galloped in with a team of cavalry. Wherever they went, there was a commotion in the crowd and they all avoided it.

"Appeal ......"

One man and one horse, stopped in front of Yun Yu.

The person who came turned over and dismounted, the face that had been tempered by the scorching sun and wind and sand at the border was as resolute as iron, and a pair of peach blossom eyes were deep and bright, reflecting the spring sunshine, shining.

The person who came was none other than Mu Huai'an, a hussar general stationed in Yunjiang.

Mu Huai'an strode to Yun Yu's side, and in a voice that only the two of them could hear, he gritted his teeth and said, "She's here, why don't you tell me." ”

Cloud Delirium: ......

He was about to answer, but Mu Huai'an had already strode forward and saluted, "The last general greets His Highness." ”

Yun Yu turned his head sideways, and he couldn't see it.

"General Mu misunderstood."

As a clear female voice sounded from the carriage, the curtain was lifted by a fair-skinned and clean hand, and a female official wearing a four-grade crimson Dali Temple official uniform walked out of the carriage.

She got out of the carriage neatly and saluted Mu Huai'an, "The lower official was ordered by Empress Shen'an to come to assist the Yunjiang Mansion in solving this case. ”

The female officer's appearance is bright, and the eyebrows are comfortable and neat, which makes people feel good at first sight.

It's none other than Jiang Yuelan, the young secretary of Dali Temple hand-picked by Empress Shen'an. is also the former Li Huai (Li Yuelan).

Mu Huai'an's eyes, which were bright a moment ago, instantly dimmed the moment he saw Jiang Yuelan.

"It's you."

He took a few steps back, pursed his lips and stood behind Yun Yu, with a resolute face, not smiling, with a hint of arrogance.

Jiang Yuelan seemed to have expected this to be the case, and she didn't care about it.

She walked in front of Yun Yu to salute, and Yun Yu agreed, so she walked in front of the people and said loudly: "This official came on the order of Empress Shen'an, Empress Shen'an knows that the villagers and elders of Yunjiang have many suspicions about this case, and this official will conduct an autopsy in public today to give you an explanation." ”

This is also the reason why Empress Shen'an did not inform the state government in advance, and intended to let Jiang Yuelan make the battle of her coming to Yunjiang in person, and asked the king of Yunjiang to come to greet her in person.

Only with the help of the name of Empress Shen'an will the people gather here, and the truth of the case can be spread as quickly as possible.

Without further ado, Jiang Yuelan took her entourage and turned around and walked into the morgue temporarily built by the government office.

Although no one dared to move the body at the scene of the crime, the people of the government did not dare to do anything perfunctory, and built a waterproof wall with sandbags around it early on, and also tied a waterproof tarpaulin canopy.

It happened that it was now the season when it was warm and cold, and it had just rained a few times in Qilongpo, and the weather was cold, but the body was well preserved, and there was no sign of decay.

The five corpses were still in the same state as they were dead, two men and two women, and a child of seven or eight years old, several people next to each other, all with wide eyes, and the death was hideous.

One of them was a middle-aged male corpse, richly dressed, like a master, and the other young male corpse was dressed as a housekeeper in a dark robe.

The two female corpses, the slightly older one, were dressed in more luxurious clothes, and the younger one, with a slender figure and a very good jade ornament on her body, looked like a wife and a concubine.

The child was also dressed in brocade clothes and was supposed to be the son of a middle-aged man.

Next to them, there was also a spacious green cloth carriage overturned.

The wheels of the carriage were broken, the roof was covered with tarpaulin, and the tracks were covered all around, and the wheels facing upwards showed muddy marks.

Jiang Yuelan inspected the body and the scene, and then asked her entourage to open her autopsy toolbox and start the autopsy.

In this year's time, Jiang Yuelan was urgently ordered by Shen Lingxi to return to Beijing, and re-entered Dali Temple, and has always been Shen Lingxi's right-hand man.

In the matter of the autopsy, she naturally had a lot of guidance from Shen Lingxi.

She used tools to carefully examine the corpse, and at each step, she instructed her attendants to sing the results of the examination of the inspected parts in public.

“…… The deceased were two men and two women, and one child. All five of them were charred and yellow, with their hands spread out, their mouths open, and their eyes bulging. ”

“…… The bun is scattered, and the top of the head is cracked. ”

"The clothes are intact, there are traces of mud and water, there is no obvious damage to the skin and flesh, and there are seal-like burn marks on the chest, neck, back, and arms......"

Mu Huai'an put his hands around his chest beside him, his eyes fell on the corpse, and when he heard Jiang Yuelan's autopsy report, his eyes moved slightly, and his eyes were thoughtful.

He turned and walked to the carriage and took a closer look around it.

Then he crouched down and measured with his hands the body and the ground around the carriage, where there were few horseshoe prints left after being washed away by the rain.

The horseshoe prints were messy, some to the east and some to the west.

He also lifted the curtain and looked inside, and his eyes finally showed a few hints of suddenness.

Compared with Mu Huai'an's familiarity and calmness, Jiang Yuelan was a little struggling.

Although she is diligent, she can contact the autopsy industry, after all, she has only been in the business for less than two years, and her experience is really insufficient.

Although she is meticulous enough to use all the methods she has learned, she can find the details of the corpse that are often overlooked.

However, there were indeed no wounds on these five corpses that had been wounded by external force. And the five of them died almost at the same time, plus those seal-like lines on their bodies, they really looked like ghost patterns.

Jiang Yuelan groaned, cleaned her hands, and walked to the dumped carriage, carefully inspected it from the inside out, and said to Yun Yu, "Please also ask the prince to order someone to take the eyewitnesses outside the shed, what does Her Royal Highness the Queen mean...... Try to conclude the case in public as much as possible in order to dispel those rumors with ill intentions. ”

Since it was Shen Lingxi's meaning, Yun Yu naturally responded and took the lead in taking people out of the shed to arrange.

Mu Huai'an's gaze swept over Jiang Yuelan's face, and she could see that she lacked confidence.

He raised his eyebrows slightly, and said in a tone that was not very polite: "You are by her side, you don't learn very well, and you have the courage to fool people, but you have learned ten out of ten." ”

Jiang Yuelan smiled at him embarrassedly and politely, "Before leaving, Empress Shen'an specially instructed the lower officials, if you are present, you can let go of your hands and feet......"

When Mu Huai'an heard this, his face did not turn bright, but became more and more depressed, "Her calculation is not as good as it was back then." ”

With that, he turned around and walked outside.

Jiang Yuelan looked at his back and breathed a sigh of relief.

When she walked out of the shed with her attendants, she saw that tables and chairs had been set up in front of the open space spontaneously set aside by the onlookers, and a simple public hall had been formed.

Yun Yu sat down on the east side of the main seat, and Mu Huai'an sat next to him, looking at the few people who were brought up by the yacha casually.

Jiang Yuelan walked to the top and sat down, "snapped", and slapped the shocking wood, and the momentum of the whole person changed suddenly, revealing a sharp and resolute aura.

"Whoever knelt in the hall and what the relationship was with the deceased will be reported one by one."

The head was a middle-aged man in his forties, with a round face, fair complexion, a big belly, and a rich appearance.

He spoke with an authentic Beijing accent, and said with a flattering smile: "Xiaomin is the owner of the Qianjin Bank in the capital, surnamed Zhou, noble, and his family is engaged in the business of herbs and spices. ”

"The five people who died, surnamed Fu, the head of the family is called Fu Mingxiu, a tea merchant from Jiangzhou, who only came to the capital a few years ago and opened a tea shop, and the business is very good. Knowing that our caravan was coming to Yunbian City, he followed. We didn't know each other well with the family, we just walked together. ”

"These are all guys from Xiaomin who brought to Yunbian City this time, now that something like this has happened to the caravan, everyone has run out, Xiaomin is the leader of this caravan, no matter how scared he is, he has to take his guys to stay and deal with the aftermath.

Jiang Yuelan looked at him deeply, and then turned her eyes to look at the others.

She casually looked at one of the guys and asked, "Tell me how they died, and what was wrong with them before they died?" ”

This question is the most curious question of the people at the moment, and the scene was silent, and everyone pricked up their ears and looked directly at the person.

The guy opened his mouth, "Villain...... Villain...... Just ......"

He had a pair of calloused hands, clutching the hem of his clothes tightly, unable to hold back a whole sentence for a long time, and his eyes kept glancing at Zhou Gui.

Seeing this, Zhou Gui hurriedly said, "Xiaomin, this guy is stupid, or ......."

"You come on." Jiang Yuelan looked at another human.

The man was so rambling that he couldn't get to the point for a long time.

Jiang Yuelan's eyes moved slightly, and she looked at the other three.

Without exception, they stutter or are timid, in short, they are not clear.

In the end, she finally looked at Zhou Gui.

Zhou Gui smiled flatteringly, seemed to be very nervous, took out a handkerchief from his sleeve, wiped the sweat from the corners of his forehead, and then said: "Those of us who do business, we have to look at the yellow calendar when we go out, and the tenth day of the first month of this month is a good day, so we will return to Beijing on that day." ”

"We all know that the place is very evil, and the caravan has taboos, so I didn't plan to take this road, but the Fu family was in the border pass this time, and exchanged tea for a lot of good horses in the Western Regions, and the detour was too rugged to take the mountain road, and their horses were not easy to walk, so I begged everyone to accommodate them and walked the Cutting Dragon Slope."

But who knows, when they arrived at the Cutting Dragon Slope, suddenly dark clouds and strong winds were blowing, and the small people were worried that it would rain, so they urged everyone to leave quickly. Halfway through, the family's horses suddenly began to stumble, and all the men of the family were on board, and they couldn't pick up the horses. ”

"Fu Mingxiu, the head of the Fu family, and his wife and concubine, as well as his only son, were originally sitting in the carriage, Xu was anxious, so he got out of the carriage, and there was a housekeeper beside him, they stood here, instructing the guys to work, and Xiaomin was kind enough to let the guys help."

"Xiaomin was watching the guys taming the horses, and suddenly heard the two mothers-in-law of the Fu family screaming, turned his head to look in their direction, and saw their six-year-old baby, her hair standing on end."

Speaking of this, Zhou Gui seemed to think of the scene at that time, and his face showed horror:

Xiaowa giggled, the four adults were not lightly frightened, and they all came up to protect him, Xiaomin was timid, and immediately ran away, and the guys who tamed the horses were all so frightened that they rode away. Xiaomin also heard a particularly thick man's voice shouting, 'Kill them all, kill them all.' ’”

"Later, there was a heavy rain, and the people waited until the rain stopped and the sky cleared, and took the guys to go back and see, and they became what they are now."

Jiang Yuelan smiled after hearing what he said.

She pointed to the overturned carriage at the secured crime scene in the morgue, "Tell me, what's going on with the carriage?" ”

Don't get me wrong, Xiao Mu doesn't have cp. There are still two chapters under repair

(End of chapter)