C10

As nightfall approached, the city gates closed as the patrolling guards in the city began their investigation. In recent days, due to the Five-elemental Evil Ghost Suo Killings, people in the city had been panicking. Not to mention the ordinary families, even the Qin Court and Chu Hall had closed their doors to thank their guests.

However, within the yamen of Yunzhou City's prefectures, the lights were still brightly lit.

Xiao Qinglang sat in the seat of honor without saying a word. Unfortunately, the atmosphere in the room was too serious, so no one praised his good looks. At this moment, Xiao Qinglang was frowning deeply, and it was obvious that he was not in a good mood.

When the prefectural and county magistrate saw Xiao Qinglang opening his mouth, they could not help but feel that they had narrowly escaped death. Sighing in their hearts, they quickly nodded their heads and agreed. As for who the Xu Chu the Duke was speaking of, they didn't dare to ask.

After a few days, they had grown up to a teahouse, a teahouse stall, and they were all discussing about Yunzhou City. All of a sudden, everyone started to panic. All of the temples, big and small, as well as some dilapidated temples, started to burn up with cigarettes. The world had too much faith in the words of the ghosts and gods, fearing that they would be killed because of disrespect towards the ghosts and gods. There were also many warlocks in the world who used this as a way to swindle money from others.

If he did not stop the wind, it would wind down to the capital sooner or later.

The morning light shone, and the fog in the mountain had not dispersed yet, yet Xu Chu was hastily invited to the carriage and rushed straight to Yunzhou City. Because this matter was urgent, Wei Guang did not dare to delay any longer. Quickly riding horses, travelling through the night, she finally arrived at the Cloud Region before noon the next day.

Inside Yunzhou City, it should have been bustling with activity, there were countless booths and even though it could not compare to the capital city's crown and capital city, it still looked like a place full of goods, imposing and prosperous. However, at this moment, even though it was supposed to be a busy hour, the streets seemed cold and deserted, and even some pedestrians were walking in a hurry.

Xu Chu looked outside through the brocade curtains at the dazzling restaurant's banner, the Flying Pavilion's elixir pills did not arouse her interest in the slightest, on the contrary, the yellow and red incantations made people feel extremely dizzy, causing her to carefully size it up a few times.

It seemed that the Five-elemental Evil Ghost Suo Killings had really scared the citizens quite a bit. Now, on the road here, she actually didn't see any shops that didn't have any talismans on them.

Wei Guang had never talked much, but that did not stop Xu Chu from having a good impression of him. It was a faceless, cold face that made people feel like it was reliable.

Xu Chu followed Wei Guang into the government office, went around the office and entered the backyard. Although it was called a backyard, it looked rather elegant and elegant. The pavilions, pavilions, waterside pavilions, and song stages were arranged in an orderly fashion. The buildings were arranged in an orderly manner. Look, it was indeed more luxurious than the Qian Family's courtyard in Cang Yan County.

After walking around the veranda, Wei Guang finally brought her to the main courtyard. Seeing her curiosity, as well as the importance that the Prince placed on her, he explained, "When nobles travel, they often build palaces. When the Prince feels that it's too extravagant, he requested for the emperor to arrange a few changes at the back courtyard of the yamen so that they can be used for the imperial family's travel."

Xu Chu nodded, she really did not know about this. However, now that she thought about how the Emperor's Palace had always been building up, this transformation in front of him could not be considered as extravagant at all.

Although it was where King Jing'an Xiao Qinglang stayed, in reality, there were not many servants. There were at most four or five of them. The rest were the guards and Wei Guang. It could be seen that Xiao Qinglang was not someone who was used to enjoyment.

When the two of them reached the side room, Wei Guang reported and then brought Xu Chu in. Many days later, when Xu Chu saw Xiao Qinglang again, she saw Xiao Qinglang holding onto a file and looking through it. On the table in front of him were many unannotated case files. It was obvious that he hadn't been serious for a moment.

The entire room was silent, only the breathing of a few people and Xu Chu's respectful greeting could be heard.

"Since the Lady Xu is here, she must have the intention of solving this case." Seeing that someone had entered, Xiao Qinglang chuckled: "Do you need to rest for a while?"

Xu Chu saw that he was smiling warmly, but her eyes did not seem as sharp and fierce as when she first met her. She could not help but laugh: "This humble one thanks the Prince for her kindness, but this matter is related to the lives of many people.

Hearing this, Xiao Qinglang no longer said anything. He reached to the side of the table and took out a few pages worth of scrolls, then stood up and walked towards Xu Chu.

The jade hairpin was tied, the silver robe with dark lines on its white surface glittered, causing Xu Chu to be stunned. Evidently, her expression was revealing too much, causing Xiao Qinglang's expression to become uneasy and cough dryly once. He then handed over the scroll in his hand and said: "These are the records of the four cases, as well as the information of the deceased. This king has already sent people to inform the families of these people that we will not leave the Cloud Prefecture without permission in the near future.

Xu Chu accepted the casework, but she was not unreasonable, and immediately opened it to have a look.

"The government actually wants to locate the guilty party and commit crimes against ghosts and gods?" Seeing the conclusion of the officials atop the casework, Xu Chu unconsciously raised her voice slightly, and looked at Xiao Qinglang with an astonished gaze.

"Don't you think so?" Xiao Qinglang's expression did not look good, he allowed Xu Chu to stare at him and asked, "Four cases where the cause of death is unknown, the traces left at the scene are not human, do you think there's something amiss?"

"The so-called gods and ghosts are just faking it." Xu Chu frowned, and shook her head in disapproval, "My words are strange and disorderly, I never believed that ghosts and gods could kill each other for their lives. But with only a few pages, I can't see anything amiss. "

It was unknown if it was because Xu Chu's words pleased her, or if it was because her serious expression made Xiao Qinglang satisfied, but right now, Xiao Qinglang was actually laughing out loud.

"According to the habits of the murderer, there will be only a few days left before the next person dies." Xiao Qinglang muttered to himself for a moment, then took out the jade pendant from his waist, "With this jade pendant, no matter what you want to look at, you can do it without worry." After pausing for a moment, as if thinking about how cruel the murderer was, he continued to remind him, "Wei Guang will go along with you, it is more important for you to keep your life if there is any danger."

With the casework in his hands and the many days between, Xu Chu couldn't help but have his heart set on examining the corpse. However, thinking about the taboos that people had against autopsies, she still asked hesitantly, "Your Royal Highness, if there was a method to offend the corpse during the autopsies …"

Seeing Xu Chu ask about this carefully, Xiao Qinglang knew that she still had other worries, so he said: "This case has already been heard by the heavens, the Emperor has ordered us to use all means to find out the reason, as long as we can resolve it, you just need to investigate."

The place where the body was placed was dark and gloomy. Because it had been two months since the first case, the Prefect could only temporarily put the corpse into the freezer.

"Lady Xu, this way, please." Master Sun brought a few coroner s from the yamen over. Although they were surprised and puzzled to see that Xu Chu was a female, but since they had King Jing'an's orders, they did not dare slight him.

Several people held their breath as they concentrated. They didn't dare to approach the corpse. But as he looked at Xu Chu, he calmly stepped forward to take a look.

"These four bodies, were they delivered directly after the crime was committed? Are there any contacts? "

"Your Highness said that after the coroner checked that there was no error, it was sent directly to the ice room for safekeeping." Master Sun looked at Xu Chu who was approaching the corpse and couldn't help but admire him, thinking that the King Jing'an had set his eyes on him, as a woman, he actually dared to be so bold.

Xu Chu did not care about what he thought, and started to personally inspect the corpses after asking around.

Zhang Zhang, a male, 53 years old, the owner of Zhang's restaurant, died on the 7th of August at the West Gate. Death by cutting his neck.

Liu Chan, male, thirty-one years old, an artificer from the east side of the city, died at the east gate on August 17th. The cause of death was a wooden stick piercing the chest.

Li Jin, male, 45 years old, Yunzhou City's tea merchant, died at East City Gate on the seventh day of September. Death by falling into a moat.

Wu Song, male, forty-six years old. He died at the south gate of the city in the pawnshop in Yunzhou. Cause of death. Burn to death.

In a few breaths, Xu Chu had already taken the soap and ginger slices, and after hesitating for a bit, she turned and asked the people behind her if they wanted to inspect them together. After receiving the negative answer, she said to a coroner that Master Sun brought over: "I'll have to trouble Senior to help me record the autopsy order."