In this blink of an eye, more than three months have passed, and the mansion that the emperor gave to Xie Fengxuan on the night of Chinese New Year's Eve has also been honored, so he ordered the Xie family to move to a new home. Since the whereabouts of Xie Qinghui, the new owner of the Xie family, are still unknown, the housekeeper in the house did not dare to disobey the holy order, and hurriedly ordered his subordinates to take stock of the household and move the family up and down. Xie Yixiang said that she would not move to the new house, and locked herself in the old mansion all day long, and the housekeeper persuaded her not to live, so she had to leave a few people to take care of her daily life, and she moved to the new house to take care of it, and welcomed Xie Qinghui's return at any time.

Xie Yixiang didn't want to see people, so she ended up clean. It is said that at noon on this day, the subordinate of the doorkeeper of the old mansion suddenly knocked on Xie Yixiang's door, saying that there was a guest in the torture room who came to visit, and asked to see Xie Yixiang by name. The gatekeeper knew that Xie Yixiang refused to see the guest, so he refused on the spot, but the person who came took out a letter and insisted that he send it to Miss Xie San for a look, saying that after Xie Yixiang saw it, he would naturally come out to meet him.

After more than three months of silence, Xie Yixiang's grief in her heart is still undiminished, and she is just unrelenting and panicking all day long, almost becoming a wasted person. Now she was in a daze in the room, and she couldn't help but be slightly surprised when she heard the announcement of the people outside the door. I remember that when Situ Mingjie came to visit that day, he once told the housekeeper in the house that unless he personally went back to the torture room to report, the torture room would never assign any errands, so that he could rest well. Since there are already such remarks put down by the chief arrester of the criminal arrest room, how can there be people from the criminal arrest room coming to him at this time?

Seeing that Xie Yixiang had not moved in the room for a long time, he was also accustomed to it, so he immediately said hello and pushed the door in. Xie Yixiang saw the so-called "letter" in the hands of his subordinates, but it was actually a huge envelope, which contained thick documents, looking at the texture and specifications, it was the case file in the criminal arrest room that was obvious, and the people in the criminal arrest room came this time to arrange an errand for themselves, so they sent the case file. Seeing that Xie Yixiang was noncommittal, the subordinate had to put this file on the case next to her, and said: "The guest has been waiting in the front hall, saying that if you can't see the third lady today, you have to wait forever, it doesn't matter how long it takes." ”

Hearing this, Xie Yixiang couldn't help but sneer. You must know that the emperor asked that Xu Gonggong to send a steamed goose to his father that night, although the father's taboo of "not eating things in the water" was nonsense, and he did not eat the steamed goose in the end, but the emperor's intention was very clear, and it was clear that he wanted to take his father's life. Just like Cao Cao, the king of Wei in the Wei and Jin dynasties, once gave an empty food box to his adviser Xun Yu, implying that Xun Yu would eventually "have no Han Lu to eat", forcing Xun Yu to commit suicide by taking poison. Therefore, whether his father died in the end because of the attack of wind and cold infected in Mobei, or the serious injuries he suffered during the battle with the "corpse army", or even committed suicide by taking poison in private, the culprit was the emperor himself, and the emperor personally murdered his father.

Since he is such an emperor and such a court, does he still have to work hard for him to investigate some cases for the Jinling Arrest Room? Xie Yixiang had long planned to resign from the post of head arrester of the Arrest Room, but he never had the heart to pay attention to it. Seeing that the file sent by the torture room was beside her, she immediately took it in her hand and tore it up on the spot.

However, although she had such a plan in her heart, when the matter came, she still couldn't do it, and finally opened the file to see what kind of case it was. I saw that inside the envelope was a thick stack of official documents, about thirty or forty pages long, with three big characters written on the frontispiece: "Human Kitchen Case", and the classification was the word "Di" and so on. She couldn't help but wonder in her heart, if the word "human slaughter" is to describe a murderer who is ruthless and a butcher who kills like hemp, then does the word "human kitchen" mean that this murderer not only kills people, but also uses the corpse of the deceased to make cooking ingredients, and performs such heart-wrenching acts as eating human flesh and drinking human blood?

It turns out that when the criminal arrest room investigates the case, it usually gives the murderer a nickname, just like the "Rainy Night Man Slaughter" or "Face Tearing Demon". In addition, every case filed by the criminal arrest room will be classified into four categories: "heaven", "earth", "xuan" and "yellow". Among them, the word "heaven" is an important political case related to the court situation, and if you don't mention it, you will have to count the serious murder cases of the word "earth". At present, this so-called "human kitchen case" is classified as "place" grade A, which is undoubtedly a first-class serious case.

At that moment, Xie Yixiang couldn't help but take a cursory look at the entire file, and suddenly felt that her scalp was numb. Just as she had guessed, this murderer was indeed a murderer who cooked human flesh, and committed three cases in a row in six years. Although only nine people died before and after, his actions were simply outrageous and disgusting. Xie Yixiang couldn't help but say in her heart: "Why did you send the file to me for such a disgusting case? Could it be that in the dignified Jinling torture and arrest room, there is no suitable head catcher to handle this case?" Thinking of this, at the end of the file, a small note suddenly fell out, and when it was unfolded, there were only twelve words written on it, which was "Shen Sheng died inside, and Heavy Ear was safe outside."

Seeing these two lines of words on the note, Xie Yixiang was suddenly shocked. This sentence was originally from the historical records of Taishi Gong, saying that the two brothers Chong'er and Shensheng in the Spring and Autumn Period were both sons of Jin Xiangong, and later Jin Xiangong Nadi's daughter was his wife, and a new son was born, and this Mrs. Di deliberately wanted to kill their two brothers so that her son could inherit the throne. After Chong'er learned of Mrs. Di's scheme, he fled from the Jin Kingdom with a few retinues, traveled all the way around the world, and finally returned to the Jin State to succeed to the throne with the power of the Qin State, and became one of the "Five Hegemons of the Spring and Autumn Period" Wen Gong of Jin. And Shen Sheng knew that Mrs. Di intended to cause harm, but he wanted to stick to filial piety and refused to leave his homeland, and was finally harmed by Mrs. Di's slander and ended up killing himself.

I remember that on Chinese New Year's Eve, when my father told my second brother Xie Qinghui, he also said the same sentence, Xie Yixiang didn't understand it at the time, but in hindsight, he had already understood his father's meaning. You must know that the emperor has murdered his father, whether it is that he is cutting the grass and eradicating the roots, or whether he is consciously responsible for the loss, he will naturally have scruples about himself and his second brother, and it is very likely that he will have murderous intentions, especially the second brother who leads the army in Mobei. That's why my father let my second brother flee overnight and go out to escape this catastrophe, which is derived from this reason.

At this time, although Xie Yixiang had not yet recovered from her grief, her mind was still alive, and when she saw the note in the file, she immediately understood the other party's intention, which was to keep herself away from Jinling, a place of right and wrong, by investigating this "human kitchen case". Thinking of this, she had vaguely guessed who the guests of the torture room who came to visit today were, and immediately got up and left the house with this dossier and went to the front hall to receive her in person. I saw that in the front hall was indeed a middle-aged female head catcher in public uniform, it was the eldest sister Yue Ying Qiuyue who I met on Mount Emei in Shu last year, and now she is also serving as the head catcher in the Jinling Torture Arrest Room.