Chapter 60: The Clue to the Killer
After the Yan family was driven away, Jiang Mingzhi returned to the room with Hongyue and Qiyun.
Chopping Cloud truthfully reported Jiang Mingzhi's performance, and Pei Zheng's eyes fell on Jiang Mingzhi and did not look away for a long time.
Just when Jiang Mingzhi thought that Pei Zheng would blame her for acting without considering the consequences, a sentence came from above her head, "It's a good job." ”
Jiang Mingzhi looked up with a little surprise, "Don't you blame me for acting too perversely?" ”
Pei Zheng chuckled, "This kind of person has never been taken into account by this kind of person. ”
Seeing the smile on the corner of Pei Zheng's mouth, Jiang Mingzhi breathed a sigh of relief, "I thought that adults also believed in the principle that a strong dragon does not suppress the head snake." ”
"Ground snakes? The Yan family is not worthy! Pei Zheng's disdainful tone made even Xiao Lie, who had just come in from outside the house, stunned in place.
"I've seen adults."
After coming back to his senses, Xiao Lie hurriedly bowed over Pei Zheng and saluted.
"The lord of the city has come to give an explanation?" Pei Zheng lowered the corner of his mouth and smiled, and his tone was light, but Xiao Lie unconsciously breathed tightly, and the pressure increased suddenly.
"I hope your Excellency will forgive me, I didn't expect this Yan family to be so lawless and able to do this kind of thing on the street, but please rest assured, the City Lord's Mansion will also strengthen its precautions from today onwards, and this kind of thing will not happen again."
Xiao Lie had long been unhappy with the Yan family, and today he saw Jiang Mingzhi throwing people outside without changing his face, so he naturally recognized the situation.
"Do you still know about the murder demon in Lingcheng?"
Seeing Pei Zheng's reaction, Xiao Lie put his heart down more and more, and immediately told everything he knew.
"Most of this murderer appears at night, but there have been tragedies at other times, most of him chooses a lone woman to start, grabs the woman and abuses her to death, tortures the corpse in every way, and then throws the broken corpse in the mass grave, there is no way to verify!"
"At first, no one could have noticed that this happened, if it wasn't for an accident, people found blood stains at the mouth of the alley, and then saw the woman's body, and then the matter was put on the bright side."
"After inquiry, we learned that eleven people had been killed during this time, and it was our negligence that we did not take this matter to heart, otherwise this kind of thing would not have happened!"
Xiao Lie's tone was full of guilt, but there was no way to know how much of it was pretended.
"That's all you found?"
When the room was quiet, Pei Zheng set his eyes on him.
"Indeed, there is no trace of this murderer's actions, and we can only find from the corpses he threw out that he singled out beautiful women and ......"
Xiao Lie hesitated for a moment, and his gaze wandered to Jiang Mingzhi on the side.
Seeing this, Pei Zheng frowned, a trace of displeasure welled up in his eyes, and Xiao Lie suddenly withdrew his gaze.
"Something to say." Pei Zheng's tone was a little dissatisfied, which made Xiao Lie can't help but roll his eyes, and he immediately lowered his eyes and didn't dare to look at it.
"After we asked for a check-up, we found that these women were still in perfect shape, but they had experienced inhumane torture before and after death, especially on their faces, and we guessed that this murderer may hate the beauty of women like flowers."
Pei Zheng hummed lightly and stopped talking.
Now that the matter was explained clearly, Xiao Lie didn't stay any longer, and arched his hand and withdrew.
"What do you think?"
Pei Zheng did not ask Jiang Mingzhi, but put his eyes on the Marquis of Dingguo.
"Lord Hui, the lower officials think that if no one has noticed this matter for so long, it should not be possible for one person to do it so seamlessly."
Dingguohou's words were consistent with what Pei Zheng thought in his heart, his fingertips tapped on the table with a regular sound, and his narrow eyes narrowed slightly, obviously thinking about things beside him.
"My lord, judging from the words of the city lord just now, if what he said is true, then the best way for us at this moment is to lure the snake out of the hole."
But as soon as the words fell, Dingguohou's eyes also fell on Jiang Mingzhi, this trip, only Jiang Mingzhi was a woman, and her appearance was outstanding, but the plan was too dangerous, Pei Zheng might agree to let Jiang Mingzhi risk his life?
Before the doubts in his heart were answered, Jiang Mingzhi understood the meaning of Dingguohou's move, and immediately took half a step forward.
"I'm bait."
"No!"
Two voices sounded at the same time, it was Pei Zheng and Dingguo Hou who did not agree to let Jiang Mingzhi put his life at risk.
"Why not? Among the few of us, I am the only woman, and if I want to lure the snake out of the hole, is it difficult for other people to dress up as women? Since the city lord has said that this person only attacks beautiful women, how can the five big and three thick backs make the murderer take the bait? ”
Jiang Mingzhi thought that her appearance was superior, but she was embarrassed to say it.
Seeing that Jiang Mingzhi insisted on this, the Marquis of Dingguo couldn't help but put his eyes on Pei Zheng, wanting to make him open his mouth and stop Jiang Mingzhi.
"You are not the only woman, there are also in the city, not to mention that you have no power to restrain the chicken, if you really lead to a murderer, and then let people go because of your negligence, it will be a scareless snake."
Pei Zheng's words carried a bit of undeniable majesty, which finally made the Marquis of Dingguo relax a little.
"But the women in the city have already made people panic because of this incident, how can they be able to calmly face the murderer?"
Facing Jiang Mingzhi's questioning, Pei Zheng had already thought of a way to deal with it.
"You're right."
Hearing this, Jiang Mingzhi was overjoyed, and before he could speak, he heard Pei Zheng's next sentence.
"Since you're so worried, there's another option."
Jiang Mingzhi frowned, and there was a vague conjecture in his heart.
"Red Moon."
As soon as the words fell, Hongyue knelt in front of Pei Zheng with a respectful face, Jiang Mingzhi looked at Hongyue, and had no choice but to give up, Hongyue was indeed more suitable than her.
"Do you have any objections to the matter of the mill?"
The question was Hongyue, but Pei Zheng's gaze fell on Jiang Mingzhi.
"Not really."
The matter was decided to go by Hongyue, Jiang Mingzhi had no choice but to change Hongyue from head to toe into the dress of a woman from a good family, and looked at Hongyue's face before nodding with satisfaction.
"Yes, this will definitely lure the murderer out!"
Hongyue took a few twists, took advantage of the night, carried a vegetable basket in her hand and went out, specially picking the kind of secluded alley to shuttle, Jiang Mingzhi specially told her not to take a big stride forward, Hongyue deliberately slowed down.
For three days in a row, there was no movement around, and every time Hongyue came back from strolling outside, she felt uncomfortable, and she couldn't wait to find out the killer immediately!
Until the evening of the fifth day, Hongyue went out as usual, who knew that she could not get a cup of tea, and she felt someone following behind her, which immediately made her a little vigilant, and her steps became more and more twisted, but she thought that tonight would definitely be rewarded, and tomorrow no matter what, she would not want to dress up like this again!