Chapter 77

After hearing her follow up, Wu Chiu stopped and said, "Miss Xu, just wait. I'll go to the forest to find out."

"Let's go together."

Xu Mingyi caught up with him in a few steps.

This was originally her business. He was willing to help her. She was very grateful. How could he wait in the carriage and leave everything to him.

After all, it's not a coolie who spent money.

Wu Tsung said nothing more. When he was about to take a step, he suddenly heard something coming out of the forest.

"Be careful -"

As soon as his reminder fell, I saw a group of dark things breaking out of the forest and making a noisy noise.

Wu Tsui subconsciously took a step sideways and raised his arm to block Xu Mingyi's eyes.

Ah Zhu came with a wind lamp and soon recovered her silence.

Wu Tsui put down his arm and walked into the forest. He said, "don't be afraid. It's just fruit bats in the forest. It should be because they were disturbed by heaven's eyes."

Xu Mingyi nodded "Hmm".

She wasn't afraid either.

Only Wu Shisun had just defended her in front of her. If she said she was not afraid, she would be kind.

Tianmu flew low in order to lead the way. Several people walked in the forest for about half an hour. When they reached the depths of the forest, Wu Tsui slowed down.

Xu Mingyi looks at him.

"Mr. Wu smelled it, too?"

There is a faint smell here, like the smell of animal decay.

Wu Tsung frowned slightly and nodded.

They followed Tianmu and went on, and the smell gradually became more and more strong and pungent.

Xu Mingyi's expression began to be dignified.

The forest is more than 20 miles away from the city, and it is only an ordinary wood forest rather than a fruit forest. There are no residents nearby. There are only some fields not far away from the forest. Now it is not busy farming. I think few people will set foot on weekdays.

If cousin Qing's hairpin was really found here by Tianmu, and she really appeared here

Thinking of the worst possible, Xu Mingyi's heart sank.

Tianmu stopped and fell on the trunk of a tree and gave a cry.

This is where the stench is strongest.

"Tianmu has been raised by me since childhood and has never eaten carrion. However, the vulture is so natural. I think it is attracted by the carrion nearby." Wu Tsui looked around as he spoke.

The sky eyes squatting on the trunk shouted with approval.

It disdains to eat, just like to see which kind died so miserably.

"Girl, there is a dead object here."

Ah Zhu found a rotten fur animal body under a tree and guessed, "maybe it's the smell of this thing."

Xu Mingyi glanced at the lamp in her hand.

"Impossible."

The boy on one side said her idea: "this is not a closed place. Animal corpses of this size can't keep emitting such a strong smell."

Xu Mingyi nodded and said, "but if someone accidentally passes by here and smells the stench and sees the animal corpse, he will subconsciously regard it as scattered by this thing without time to think carefully."

"That's right."

Wu Tsung said firmly, "someone deliberately put this dead thing here to cover up the real body odor."

Xu Mingyi's eyes moved inch by inch.

The moonlight was thin, and the sound of insects came one after another. When you were absorbed, you only felt quiet and paradoxically noisy.

The girl's soft embroidered shoes made a loud noise when she stepped on the dead leaves.

Xu Mingyi stopped by a sealed well.

Wu Tsung followed.

There is farmland nearby. In recent years, the imperial court has attached great importance to farming and opened more new wells near the field.

For example, the old wells in the forest are abandoned as soon as they come and go. It is also common to seal the wellhead with stones in case someone accidentally falls into the well when passing by.

But the smell here is obviously stronger.

Xu Mingyi even couldn't bear to cover his mouth and nose with a handkerchief, frowned and said in a muffled voice, "I'm afraid there's something in this well --"

Wu Tsung nodded.

"Step back."

When the boy was about to move the stone, he saw the servant girl disguised as a boy coming quickly. Without saying a word, he picked up the stone, threw it aside heavily and patted the dust on his hands.

Wu Tsung was silent for a moment.

There seems to be nothing that can help.

Ah Zhu lifted the wind lamp and stood above the wellhead to look into the well.

The next moment, he suddenly stepped back two steps, his face turned white and said, "girl, there are dead people..."

Little girl, even if she is a great artist, she has never seen a face rotten to this extent. At this time, she suddenly saw this scene. She didn't scream and lose her temper. She is very brave.

Xu Mingyi slightly grasped his fingers and hurriedly asked, "is it a man or a woman?"

"I didn't see it clearly."

Xu Mingyi made a quick decision: "pick up the body."

Ah Zhu, who had calmed down, looked at Wu Tsung.

She just seems to have robbed Wu Shisun of what he wants to do. At present, it's better to give Wu Shisun the job of picking up the body as compensation.

“……”

Aware of the look in the servant girl's eyes, Wu tsugamu pulled a corner of her mouth.

Why does the servant girl think that he is a noble family child who can go down to the well to pick up the body?

I'm not afraid, but I really don't have the habit of looking for Xun.

"Come out."

The young man's voice fell, and immediately four dark guards in black appeared in the dark.

"Salvage the corpse from the well." Wu Chiu ordered.

Several dark guards smell the speech and try to make their faces look like a qualified and calm dark guard.

Several people endured the smell of the corpse and quickly fished up the corpse and laid it flat by the well.

"It's a young man," Wu Tsung said with a glance.

Xu Mingyi was slightly relieved. Looking at the clothes of the body, he guessed, "this may be Qilin."

The other party's dress is no different from that described by the waiter in the teahouse just now.

Wu Tsung gave a "um" and then ordered, "search him, and then sneak into the well to see if there are other things missing."

The dark guard should go down.

"Childe, there are two silver tickets hidden in this man's shoes."

"A woman's hairpin was found at the bottom of the well."

Wu Tsui took the hairpin and handed it to Xu Mingyi.

"It's just a pair with the previous one." Xu Mingyi took another look at the corpse and guessed in his heart.

This person was bought off, so he cheated cousin Qing out.

The pair of hairpins should also be from the comatose cousin Qing. It is not surprising that such a person will be easily bought off.

After the success, he should not dare to stay in Beijing again. Then he hurried out of the city and deliberately hid away.

Now, most of the people who have been thrown into this dry well have been killed.

The pair of hairpins should have dropped one nearby when he ran into the dense forest. Later, Tianmu accidentally picked it up - Tianmu has good eyesight. The reason why he picked up the hairpin should be the same as Wu Tsui, who mistook the hairpin for her.

But

Xu Mingyi frowned and suddenly felt something wrong.

Tianmu picked up her hairpin. Why not send it back to the town government, but to Wu Tsugami?

This can't help but make people feel puzzled, but now there are other serious things, and Xu Mingyi has no intention of thinking about such small things.

At this time, a dark guard who looked at the body made a new discovery.