Conspiracy

Chapter 368

"His Royal Highness, I can tell you everything you want to know, but I have something to ask!"

"Say."

"Your Majesty, I want to personally execute Lu Qinglin, the prefect of Jiangdu!"

"That's it? You don't want anything else? For example, clearing up your grievances and restoring your innocence? Returning to officialdom? High-ranking officials and rich salary?"

"The next official only wants Lu Qinglin's life."

"Okay! Then you can continue what Zhen'er said earlier, and let Ben Gong see your sincerity."

Tao County Magistrate's eyes shifted from Su Zhen to several ministers and staff around Shang Yuchen, the resistance in his eyes was obvious,
"They're all from my own family. County magistrate Tao can speak up if he has something to say."

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After thinking about it for a while, the magistrate Tao sighed, "His Royal Highness, I have studied hard for ten years and practiced martial arts diligently since I was a child. Only then did I win the number one scholar in both civil and military affairs, and became famous all over the world in one fell swoop.

It's just that he was too frivolous at that time and offended many people in the court, so he deserved to be demoted. "

"Been framed? You didn't complain at the time?" Tang Yinchen doubted, and suddenly his eyes lit up, "Could it be that you hate the court, so you want to destroy the relationship between the court and Jianghu?"

"Resentment, of course it is a complaint. At that time, I was drunk every day and fell for a long time before I came out with my wife and children. In the past six years, although we were not rich, we were able to live with the salary allocated by the imperial court every year. Happy birthday. But just a month ago, everything changed."

County magistrate Tao seemed to remember something that frightened him, and his pupils constricted suddenly.

"His Royal Highness, more than a month ago, on the riverside outside Liting Town, fishermen found an ice coffin from the water, surrounded by white mist. There is no support under it, as if there is no gravity , floating so lightly on the water.

At that time, they didn't think much about it, so they used iron chains and ropes to bring the ice coffin back to the ground from the water.

After hearing about this, the subordinate officer immediately led people to rush there, and sent people to work together to pry open the lid of the ice coffin."

"Magistrate Tao, what's wrong with the bones in there?"

Seeing his strange expression, Yang Huanzhi asked.

"After the bones were examined by several experts in the town, it was found that the corpse in the coffin had a humanoid upper body, a fishtail bone and wings on its back."

Everyone was confused, even Su Zhen and Gu Yunshu were dumbfounded. They looked at Shang Yuchen together, and the latter shook his head, expressing that he didn't know.

Su Zhen suddenly remembered those strange scenes in her memory, which seemed to be very similar to the corpse Tao County Magistrate said.

"Have you encountered a monster?"

Yuzhu, who was sitting quietly at the side, suddenly said 'Amitabha'.

"Little master Yuzhu, what do you think?" Shang Yuchen said.

"Amitabha! Master once said that demons are originally the spiritualization of all things in the world. Good and evil are indeterminate. Those who enter the evil way are also demons. However, the demon clan died, the demon core burst, and its corpse disappeared into nothing."

"Huh? Little master, are you saying that the bones are fake?" Tang Yinchen said.

"Not exactly." Yuzhu nodded and saluted with one hand.

"It sounds so absurd! Magistrate Tao, you are not fooling us!"

Shang Yuchen rubbed his swollen and sore eyes, "Magistrate Tao, just keep talking."

"Yes!"

Always by his side, Gu Yunshu sensed his fatigue, and raised his left hand to rest on his back shoulder.

Shang Yuchen felt that there was a strange white airflow in his body that was continuously rotating and rising from his lower abdomen, and the fatigue and sleepiness in his body seemed to have dissipated a lot.

"After the ice coffin was taken out of the river, strange things happened in Liting Town. People often saw ghosts appearing in the fields, but they disappeared after a few days.

However, within two days, it rained heavily in Luoqi.The torrential rain triggered a series of irresistible natural disasters, which broke down dykes and dams, collapsed houses, and destroyed the fields on which the people depended for survival.

What followed was a strange disease that resembled a plague.

And those ghosts also kept emerging from the water. "

"Magistrate Tao thinks all this is caused by the ice coffin?" Shang Yuchen asked.

"Yes!"

"Then where is it now?"

"Go back to His Royal Highness, the ice coffin was taken away by Lu Qinglin."

As soon as County Magistrate Tao mentioned this person, unstoppable anger burst out from his body, he gritted his teeth, and veins popped out on his forehead.

"The beast sent someone to snatch the ice coffin, and at the same time, in order to block the news, he ordered everyone who knew about it to tie huge stones to them, and then fell into the river alive."

Tang Yinchen suddenly said in a hurry, "Wait a minute! Wait! Magistrate Tao, I'm sorry to interrupt, but on the way to Nanzhuang Village, we encountered monsters making trouble. They must be water ghosts. They came to claim their lives. Already?"

Everyone was speechless, Yang Huanzhi was instructed by Shang Yuchen's eyes, covered his mouth and dragged him aside.

"Your Highness, as Mr. Tang said, the lower official had thought about it. So, he sent people to investigate at this time. As we all know, the incident behind this incident was not trivial. They arrested the lower official's wife and children, and forced the lower official to send someone disguised as People from the Jianghu, go to calculate the relief money for the relief of the people in Jiangdu. In the end, kill all the people from the Jianghu who were captured, and provoke them in one fell swoop."

What County Magistrate Tao said was roughly the same as their previous guess, but the only strange thing was the ice coffin and strange bones he mentioned.

"Master Tao, do you know what they use the ice coffin for?"

"Keep the corpse."

"Hmm?!" Tang Yinchen pushed his big hand away from his mouth, and said impatiently, "What is it? Raising a corpse? How?"

"One of the servants in the magistrate's mansion is from our town. He got drunk and unintentionally revealed that the ice coffin is a strange thing, which can revive the dead without flesh and bones."

"Ah? Then according to this, why didn't the bone in the coffin you mentioned come back to life? Isn't it ridiculous to say that?"

"It's not ridiculous, it's true, because I saw with my own eyes, a woman in blue crawled out of the ice coffin."

"Ah? The woman in blue? Are you sure it's a dead person?"

"Yes! Before the ice coffin was escorted away by Lu Qinglin's men, there was a corpse of a woman in blue on top of the bones inside. She had no pulse or breath, and her whole body was very cold. She was a dead person!"

"Does the girl have any other characteristics?"

"She has a beautiful appearance, and the clothes and accessories on her body are all in the style of the palace."

"What? In the palace? That girl in blue is from the palace?!" Shang Yuchen finally changed his face, "Magistrate Tao! Where did that girl go?"

"He was rescued by a boy in black! However, the officer seems to have heard the boy calling the dead girl his sister."

"Jing'er. Twilight"

"Could it be Jing'er Mujing who came here! Look for them! Strange diseases are breaking out everywhere outside, we must find them this morning!"

(End of this chapter)