Imperial City Investigative Department

Chapter 340 Snake Nest? (two more)

Wu Chen turned his head to look at Xing Yun. Xing Yun was pulling dry grass with the hilt of his sword. He must have seen something, but Xing Yun didn't move.

Wu Chen walked over and saw that there were scattered bones.

Wu Chen frowned, squatted down and was about to touch it with his hands when Xing Yun grabbed him: "Toxic!"

Wu Chen smiled and said, "Don't say that I'm not afraid of poison, just that weeds can grow around here, so the poison is not considered serious, or poison can only hurt people."

Xing Yun grabbed Wu Chen's arm without letting go, and said, "Don't care if it's severe or not, you don't need to touch it, just look at the bones are black and out of shape, and you know you've been dead for many years."

"How do you know it must be a human skeleton?" Wu Chen stood up and asked.

Xing Yun was stunned for a moment.

Wu Chen smiled and said, "It's indeed human, but it doesn't necessarily have to be dead for several years."

Xing Yun pointed to the skeleton as if to say: It's all like this, how can you say that he just died?

Wu Chen restrained his smile and said, "It may be poisonous snakes that come out in a while, and there are a lot of them. Do you have a way to deal with it?"

Xing Yun froze for a few seconds with a questioning expression before reacting, and said, "I can only see one and kill the other."

Wu Chen looked at the sky. Although it wasn't dark yet, the sun had completely set.

"First, check to see if there are any corpses in these rooms..."

Xing Yun disappeared immediately.

Soon Xing Yun was heard shouting: "There are three corpses here, and the corpses are still warm, they should have died not long ago."

Wu Chen didn't even move. He looked at the bones under his feet, raised his head and said, "Use the fastest speed to prepare more snake repellent medicine."

Just as Wu Chen finished speaking, Shang Gong, a sophomore in high school, happened to walk to the gate of the courtyard.

Wu Chen said again: "Second brother will follow Xing Yun for a while, and send over some medicine first, the sooner the better!"

The sophomore opened his mouth and was dragged away by Xing Yun before he could say anything.

"Shangfu Yin, wait for me for a moment." Wu Chen said, turned around and went down the tunnel again.

……

Suddenly there was only Shang Gong left in the yard.

Shang Gong's guts were full of regrets, he was going to bring the yamen servant over here, but when he walked to the gate of the house, he happened to meet a sophomore in high school, so he asked the yamen servant to go back to Liu's house and wait.

Shang Gong knew that the second year of high school was left in the palace by the officials, but he didn't mention it to Wu Chen. The officials didn't let him tell, and Wu Chen didn't ask. How could Shang Gong cause trouble for himself?He thought about asking the second year of high school, what the officials asked, but it was not easy to ask these questions in front of the yamen servants.

Wu Chen thought that the sophomore was going to visit Xu Da and Gu You at his home, but he didn't expect that the sophomore would follow Shang Gong into the palace.

Can Shang Gong not regret it now?The sophomore didn't let him ask any questions. From entering the house to seeing Wu Chen, it was the sophomore who asked him about the house all the time!If there is a yamen servant following, at least he can fetch a torch, but the sky is getting darker and darker.

Shang Gong recalled that Wu Chen seemed to have said that there would be ghosts after dark... no, it was bears!Shang Gong stiffened his body, and trembled at the thought.

But at this time Wu Chen came up suddenly with several mice in both hands, Shang Gong was so frightened that he jumped up on the spot and yelled 'ah'.

Wu Chen thought that Shang Gong had seen something, so he hurriedly looked back nervously.

"You scared me to death. I thought it was a bear."

"It's not a bear, it should be a snake." Wu Chen walked up to Shang Gong, threw the mouse in his hand, and said, "It's late today, and I can't think of a way to deal with it, so let Xing Yun and the second brother go first Go get some snake-repellent medicine, and deal with it tonight."

Shang Gong turned the bear into a snake in his mind, his nervous expression didn't relax, he wiped the sweat from his forehead, and asked anxiously: "You mean, there are... snakes under Liu's house?"

"Maybe it's a snake's nest, big snakes and small snakes, I don't know how many there are."

"How is it possible? Just because of these few mice?" Shang Gong pointed to the pile of mice on the ground that Wu Chen had thrown to death.

"The old man you took away has been delaying time with me, and later he slipped his mouth, saying that I will be cleaned up after dark, I told him who I am, after some testing, I know that the one who comes out after dark is not Ghost, and his father and son are masters, but they were injured in our hands. If the one after dark is also a master, then the old man should know that he can't touch me..."

"That……"

"I asked you to send people here. At that time, I really thought that someone from them came to help. Both Xu Da and Gu You were injured. I was thinking about going to the tunnel, so I sent more people just in case, but soon I was Knowing that the old man didn’t mean people coming from outside, but the danger coming up from below, the old man went down before, so I thought it was to make some arrangements first, so I went to have a look first.”

"He went down and released the mice?"

Wu Chen nodded and said, "The rats were only placed near the steps. I thought the old man had run out of the rats he had brought down, so I went up to search with Xing Yun. I found bones in the dry grass, and found them in the house. The three good corpses should be living people, but they just died, and the rats are not the only ones I brought up, I just got out the ones near the steps, and I didn’t dare to go further inside.” Wu Chen said with a smile.

"Don't you dare?" Shang Gong asked in surprise.

"Who is not afraid of those things that come out in groups? Snakes are the first thing that come to my mind..."

"How can a boa constrictor leave a skeleton after swallowing a person?"

"This yard should have been acquired by those people when the Liu family died. They knew what was under the Liu house. They opened up this tunnel. After so many years, they have not been able to take away the things under the Liu house. Do you think they Will they come often? They have been careful for ten years, will they not clean up the yard and leave bones?"

Shang Gong frowned and asked, "You mean that the corpse belonged to a trespasser? This person escaped the eyes of those people after his death, and was discovered by you today?"

"It's not difficult for a trespasser to come in. How could he die here? It must not have been killed by those people, and his bones were all black. Obviously he died of poisoning. There are many living things that can poison people, and they can be hidden all year round. The underground ones, unless we haven't seen them before, can poison people to death and eat rats..."

"It's really a snake's nest!"

"Looking at the remaining bones of this man, I don't think it was bitten by a snake. I just can't figure it out. How could there be a python? This is the capital, not a barren mountain..." Wu Chen leaned closer to Shang Gonglow when he said this. He asked in a loud voice, "Isn't the capital of the previous dynasty here? Don't blame Shangfu Yin, I was a beggar before, and I haven't studied..."

Shang Gong hurriedly said, "Vice Envoy Wu is too modest!"

Shang Gong wiped the sweat from his forehead, and said to himself: What's the use of reading a lot at this time, how can ghosts and ghosts let anyone go because of who has read?

"It's true that the capital of the previous dynasty was not here. At that time, it was called Ning'an City. It was a small city, because it was adjacent to the river, extending in all directions. It has been prosperous since ancient times. After Emperor Taizong rebuilt it, he moved the capital here."

"That is to say, when this was still Ning'an City, the place we are standing now might belong outside the city?"

(End of this chapter)