Detective Di Renjie: The Mysterious Dynasty

Chapter 368 The Fourth Update of Night

Xue Qinglin was restless in the room. He was exhausted by the whole day's experiences, and Feng Wanchun's death made him even more frightened.

Immediately afterwards, footsteps were suddenly heard outside the room.

He turned around abruptly, feeling a chill in his heart, and looked outside the door vigilantly, only to find that it was a servant from his own mansion.

The servant looked flustered, as if he was carrying a secret. He hurried forward and reported: "My Lord, everything has been handled as you ordered!"

Xue Qinglin raised his eyebrows and asked, "No one will find out, right?"

The servant lowered his voice, with a tremor in his tone: "Tie it to a rock and sink it into the river to feed the fish. No one will be able to find it!"

This refers to the body of Feng Wanchun. He was a pirate in the first half of his life, and after his death his body was sunk to the bottom of the river to feed the fish. It can be said that he had a beginning and an end and gave back to nature.

Xue Qinglin finally smiled with satisfaction after hearing this, and his tense nerves relaxed: "Very good!"

"What's the situation with Zhang Yi?" he asked again.

The servant looked embarrassed and hesitated, "Uh, I don't know, it seems there is no movement yet."

Xue Qinglin looked up at the bright moon in the night sky, and a strange doubt surged in his heart: "Strange, it's already past the first watch, why is there no movement?"

After a moment of contemplation, his uneasiness became stronger, and he made a prompt decision: "Prepare the horses! I want to go and see for myself!"

The servant quickly agreed: "Yes!"
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The night was deep and the county government office was shrouded in silence.

After Jinniang parted with Ruyan in Xiaopu Village, she was troubled by the thought and finally thought of the last clue.

So she immediately rushed back to the county town and hid near the county government office, waiting until dark, ready to sneak into the government office.

She took a deep breath, mustered up her courage, jumped up, held on to the wall tightly with both hands, and after some struggle, finally climbed into the county government office.

On a big tree not far away, Ruyan watched all this quietly.

Whether for Jinniang's safety or for clues to the case, Ruyan will not leave Jinniang, who is in a disturbed mental state, alone.

Ruyan only left Jinniang on the surface, but in fact she always followed her from a distance, protecting her silently.

Seeing Jinniang enter the county government office, Ruyan thought for a moment, then quickly followed her in.

Jinniang carefully groped her way to the morgue of the county government office, gently pushed open the window, and climbed in clumsily.

The room was pitch black. Due to the series of accidents that had happened in the past few days, Wu Si's body was still lying on the bed and had not been buried in time.

Jinniang took out a fire starter from her bosom and blew it gently. With the faint light, she found Wu Si's body and began to search through it.

At the same time, Ruyan, who was outside the room, followed quietly and watched Jinniang's every move through the gap in the window.

In the distance, the voices of two yamen runners could be heard faintly. They walked slowly towards us, lanterns in hand.

"Do you think that County Magistrate Lin is a little abnormal?" the fat yamen runner said mysteriously to the thin yamen runner.

The thin guy also felt the same way and agreed, "Yeah, he goes out early and comes back late every day, and it seems he's not here tonight..."

"Most likely he went to the governor or the imperial envoy again. Otherwise, he is the county magistrate, so he would have to try his best to curry favor with him!" The fat yamen runner shook his head helplessly, with a hint of sourness in his words.

Seeing the two people getting closer, Ruyan immediately jumped up and clung lightly under the eaves.

Suddenly, the thin runner pulled the fat runner beside him and pointed in the direction of the morgue.

"what?"

The fat bailiff looked up and saw a faint light coming from the morgue.

"Let's go and take a look!" The two looked at each other and tiptoed towards the morgue.

Ruyan hung down from the eaves and looked into the room. She saw Jinniang still searching intently and didn't notice anyone coming.

At this time, two yamen runners had arrived at the door. The fat runner took the key from his waist and prepared to open the door.

Ruyan acted decisively, took out a steel dart from her bosom, shook her wrist lightly, and with a "pop", the fire lighter in Jinniang's hand went out, and Jinniang was suddenly startled.

Just at this moment, there was a slight sound of unlocking coming from outside.

Jinniang was horrified and quickly ducked under the corpse bed to hide. With a creak, the door slowly opened, and two yamen runners carrying swaying lanterns slowly walked into the room and began to search everywhere.

Jinniang hid under the corpse bed and watched the two uninvited guests nervously.

"No one is here." The fat man held a lantern and looked around the room, but found nothing unusual.

The thin man frowned and looked around: "Hey! This is weird. I clearly saw a fire inside just now."

"Brother, don't, don't let this be a ghost! That old man Wu Si is here to...to seek revenge on us!" The fat man's voice trembled, and he seemed a little panicked.

The thin man turned around suddenly and glared at the fat man: "Don't talk nonsense! Every wrong has its perpetrator, every debt has its creditor, Du Er has paid with his life! Stay here, I'll go get someone to take a look."

Jinniang, who was hiding under the bed, felt nervous, fearing that she would be discovered.

She vaguely heard the fat man's slightly frightened voice: "Come back quickly!"

The thin man responded and hurried out.

The fat man swallowed his saliva, held up the lantern, and looked around vigilantly.

When the light of the lantern was about to illuminate Jinniang's hiding place, suddenly, a sneer echoed in the room.

The fat man stopped suddenly and asked in a trembling voice: "Who? Who is there?"

A deep and eerie voice sounded faintly: "It's me..."

The fat man screamed in fear and asked in a trembling voice: "Who... who are you?"

With a "pop", the lantern in his hand went out inexplicably, and the surroundings suddenly fell into darkness.

The fat man jumped out of the room like a frightened rabbit, shouting, "It's haunted! Someone come! It's haunted!"

Taking this opportunity, Jinniang quickly got up, rushed out of the room, and escaped from this place of trouble.

In the distance, the shouts of the yamen runners could be heard one after another, and they were rushing towards the morgue.

Jinniang knew no martial arts and was unfamiliar with the layout of the yamen. She was at her wit's end and was about to be caught.

Seeing this, Ruyan sighed helplessly and had to take action herself. She flew out and picked up Jinniang.

The bailiffs who arrived did not notice anything unusual and continued to head towards the morgue.

Ruyan held Jinniang in her arms, and under the cover of night, they were like two light shadows, shuttling between the roof and walls of the county government office.

Jinniang hugged Ruyan's neck tightly, feeling both surprised and happy.

The two landed outside the yamen, and Ruyan gently put Jinniang down.

The scene was a little awkward for a moment and the two looked at each other in silence.

Finally, it was Jinniang who broke the silence first.

She seemed to have expected Ruyan to follow her, and was not surprised at all. She just said softly, "Thank you, Sister Ruyan, you saved me again."

Ruyan smiled slightly: "It's nothing, as long as you don't blame me for following you. Where are you going next?"

The final effort was unsuccessful, and Jinniang finally fell into complete despair, with powerlessness and sadness written all over her face.

Jinniang closed her eyes, shook her head weakly, and then laughed nervously: "I'm not going anywhere, I'm not going anywhere... Sister Ruyan, I'll go back with you."

Ruyan was a little surprised when she heard this, but seeing Jinniang's condition, she couldn't help but feel deeply worried.

She gently held Jinniang's hand and said softly but firmly: "Okay, sister will take you home!"

When Jinniang heard Ruyan's words, she smiled sadly and repeated in a low voice: "Go home... go home..."

The moonlight fell on her face, making her bloodless face even paler.

A broken flower is about to wither.

(End of this chapter)