36 Bury the ice corpse in the backyard cellar

Hearing the girl's words, Xie Yixiang couldn't help but take two steps back, but heard the sound of footsteps behind her, and it was Lord Fang who rushed over with a group of servants. Xie Yixiang was like grabbing a life-saving straw, and hurriedly shouted to Lord Fang: "This girl in the room is a demon, a demon, and even more ...... She is the serial murderer of this 'human kitchen case'! Everyone hurry up and take her down together!"

Who knew that Lord Fang heard this, but his face sank, and he asked rhetorically: "Why did I take down the cook in my yamen?" Xie Yixiang couldn't help but say loudly: "This girl is clearly a murderer, she ...... She's cooking human flesh in the pot!" Lord Fang sneered and said lightly: "Ningyi City has already been out of food for many days, and among these people who are still alive now, who doesn't make a living by eating human flesh?

As soon as these words came out, Xie Yixiang was stunned on the spot and blurted out: "This ...... How is this possible? Although there is no food in the city, there is still ...... But there is still some food hidden in the people's homes, and even the yamen does not have chaff, buckwheat and rice, how can it be...... Eating human flesh for a living?"

The girl in the room changed into the voice of a little girl at this time, and smiled like a silver bell: "Man is the spirit of all things, and human flesh is the most delicious taste of the world." For example, today's human feast in Ningyi City, even Lord Taishou Fang has gladly accepted it, why are you so stubborn?" Lord Fang outside frowned and said: "The 30,000 rebels of the rebel King Heng are besieging the city, but our iron clothes would rather die than surrender, and they will definitely hold on to death." At present, the food and grass are exhausted, and we have to feed our hunger with human flesh, which is really a helpless move. And this ...... This little girl is the best at cooking human flesh, looking at the two capitals and thirteen envoys, I am afraid that no one will be able to control her, even if she has committed any sins in the past, at this critical juncture, Ning Yicheng is the time to employ people, I naturally want to keep her here. ”

Xie Yixiang kept shaking her head when she heard this, only to feel that the whole thing had been messed up, and muttered: "It's nonsense...... It's just nonsense, these days in the yamen every day to steam some black flour steamed buns with buckwheat flour, and also cook bran to relieve the refugees at the gate of the yamen, and ...... And in the backyard of this yamen, there are clearly thousands of catties of rice with shells hidden in the cellar......" Speaking of this, she suddenly found that among the officials behind Master Fang, the master Du who was placed here in the pro-army governor's mansion was also there, and hurriedly pointed to Master Du in the crowd and said: "It's this Master Du, who personally took me to the backyard of the yamen to check that day, showed me the thousands of catties of rice hidden in the cellar, and loaded five or six catties for me on the spot. ”

Master Du's face suddenly changed, and he waved his hand and said, "Where is there any rice hidden in this yamen......? When did the villain take you to see it? Miss Xie San, don't ...... Don't talk nonsense and wronged the villain!" Xie Yixiang heard him deny it, and said angrily: "You...... Believe it or not, I asked Xian Jingyue to remove you from your post and investigate?" As soon as the words fell, Master Du's face turned pale with fright, and he almost jumped up on the spot, and hurriedly defended loudly: "What nonsense are you talking about...... What is the first to compete for the moon? villain...... The villain doesn't know this person at all!"

You must know that this matter is not big, but it is not small. If there is really no food in the yamen, then what have he and the others in the yamen been eating in the past few days? If there is no food in the yamen, how can Lord Fang allow this girl to cook people's heads in the room? Xie Yixiang didn't bother to argue with this Master Du for a while, and she didn't have time to pay attention to the girl in the room and the people outside the room, so she immediately walked to the backyard where Master Du had led her that day.

Lord Fang, like all the officials present, looked at each other, their faces were gloomy, and they also followed behind Xie Yixiang and came to the open space in the backyard of the yamen. Xie Yixiang still remembers the location of the cellar where the rice was buried, and after a little measurement, he had found the right position, and used his feet to cut away the dust on the ground, and sure enough, a three-foot square wooden board was revealed. She lifted the plank hard, revealing the cellar below, and asked in a deep voice, "Do you dare to say that there is no grain hidden in the yamen?"

Xie Yixiang was suspicious, and then looked into the cellar, but saw that there was no shelled rice in the cellar, it was clearly a dead body; although it was not as spectacular as the abandoned corpse cave in the back mountain of the dust hermitage on Mount Emei that day, there were twenty or thirty martyred corpses in it, among which there were men and women, and they were all people in Ningyi City. In addition, there were more than a dozen pieces of ice the size of a water tank in the cellar, apparently to freeze the corpses for long-term storage.

Seeing the situation in the cellar clearly, Xie Yixiang's legs were weak, and the whole person sat down on the ground. What she saw with her own eyes that day, there were clearly thousands of catties of rice in the shell hidden here, why did all of them turn into corpses at this time? Could it be that Master Du and Master Fang did something afterwards? Or what she saw that day was actually just a hallucination of her own imagination? Even all this that happened here and now was the real hallucination? She always felt incredulous about this, and pointed at Master Du and asked, "Is this ...... What the hell is going on?"

Master Du shook his head like a rattle and stammered as he replied, "Villain...... Where does the villain know? here...... ...... here" Xie Yixiang asked sharply again: "Impossible! At that time, I saw with my own eyes that there were thousands of catties of rice hidden in this cellar, and you even packed a small bag for me with your own hands! Yes...... At that time, I also reminded you that since there was grain hidden in the yamen, it was conceivable that the people of Ningyi City also had some surplus grain hidden in their homes, so you said that you would lead people to search from house to house, collect the grain in the whole city, and distribute it in a unified manner. In that case, why should you ...... Why do you need to do such a unconscionable act as eating human flesh?"

As early as half a month ago, Master Fang had already led people to dig three feet into the ground in the entire Ningyi City, go to every household to carefully investigate, and confiscate the grain stored in the people's homes until there was no grain in the whole city, so why wait for you to remind you? Moreover, you kept saying that the villain had packed a bag of rice for you, which is even more nonsense! If there really is any rice in this Ningyi City, you can take it out and show it to us! ”

Hearing this, Xie Yixiang was stunned for a moment. It is said that the bag of rice that Master Du put into himself that day, when he saw the two families preparing to "eat Yizi" last night, he thought about taking it out to save people, but he didn't find it in his bag, and he thought it was in the guest room of the yamen. But at this time, after thinking about it carefully, since Master Du handed over the bag of rice to him, in the past few days, he has never seen the bag of rice, let alone eaten a grain, that is to say, a bag of five or six catties of rice has disappeared like this?

From this point of view, could it be that the rice that Master Du brought himself to the backyard to see that day really imagined a hallucination, or it was just a dream, and it never happened at all? But this cellar in the backyard is extremely secret, if the scene that day was just an illusion, how could he really find the location of this cellar according to what happened in the hallucination?

Xie Yixiang shook her head slowly, her heart was completely confused, she could only look at Lord Fang, who was the leader, and asked with the last glimmer of hope: "Let's not talk about the rice for the time being, let's talk about it...... Talking about the girl in the room. Lord Fang, as the fourth-rank official of the imperial court and the Taishou of the entire Ningyi City, is the parent official here, is it ...... Do you want to connive at the murderers of the 'human kitchen case' to cook human flesh and feed on the flesh of the people under his rule, and do such a thing as a beast?"