After I stopped being a lady from a rich family, I fought all over the capital

Chapter 317 Aren't you dreaming?

"The Jingzhao Prefecture is investigating!"

Jiao Bubai said with a stern face: "I am Jiao Bubai, the Left Inspector of the Capital Prefecture. The Yang family in Jinye Street has reported that something strange has happened in their home. I need to ask you some questions and gather clues."

"Please cooperate."

Jin Hu looked up at Jiao Bubai, who was wearing a coarse linen shirt: ...He can't cooperate at all.

Judging from his attire, he doesn't look like the Left Inspector of the Capital Prefecture at all.

On the contrary, he seems more like—the murderer!
"Greetings, sir! Good evening, sir!" Jin Hu greeted him politely with a cupped-hand salute, then continued to act like a rattle-drum: "Your Excellency is wise, I know nothing."

"I heard nothing and saw nothing."

"I wonder what strange thing happened to the Yang family."

"I just got up in the middle of the night."

Jin Hu seemed to have suddenly found a very suitable reason, and his expression became even more excited: "Ah, right, right, I just got up to pee. I drank too much water before I went to bed, so I got up to pee."

"I didn't see anything, really, sir!"

Jiao Bubai: "..."

"In that case, we cannot rule out his suspicion for the time being. Take him back to the yamen."

Before Jiao Bubai could finish speaking and before Jin Hu could fully recover, he was restrained by several other yamen runners from the Jingzhao Prefecture dressed in official robes.

"Ah? No?!"

Jin Hu was shocked: "You're really from the Jingzhao Prefecture?!"

Jiao Bubai waved his hand, ignoring Jin Hu, and ordered his men to take him away.

"Ah! No, I confess, I confess... Ah no, I'll tell you, I'll tell you everything."

Jin Hu shouted at the top of his lungs.

Then I realized, what did I say?

He really didn't see anything.

However, at this moment, Jiao Bubai had already turned his head and looked at him.

Jin Hu was speechless.

Jiao Bubai: ...

His expression darkened slightly: "Take him back and put him in solitary confinement! No one is allowed to speak to him."

"Yes!"

Jin Hu cried out that he was innocent!
No, he didn't see anything at all, so why was he arrested?

However, the people of the Jingzhao Prefecture did not listen to his sophistry at all.

Just assume he's interfering with work.
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Jiao Bubai visited several more places and got basically the same results.

It is said that in the dead of night, when one is sound asleep, one suddenly hears several screams, which are very shrill and frightening.

But when they got up, dressed and put on their shoes, wanting to see what had happened outside, everything returned to calm.

The only sounds that could be heard were the chirping of insects and the croaking of frogs.

Thus, all the doubts returned to the Yang family.

According to several other families, strange things suddenly happened in their homes, with screams coming one after another, because they first heard the scream coming from the Yang family's house.

"...I don't know what kind of evil spirit she was possessed by? In the middle of the night, she suddenly started screaming in all sorts of ways. At first, we thought she was having a nightmare, so we tried to wake her up and ask her what was wrong, but no matter how much we called her, she wouldn't wake up."

“I did receive an invitation from the Xue family a couple of days ago, saying they were inviting people to go to that Changsheng Temple to enjoy the flowers and the spring scenery. I found it strange at the time. Putting aside the fact that it's this season, where are there flowers to admire, and where is there any greenery to walk on? Just the Xue family, such a high-ranking and prestigious family, living in the east and west cities, why would they look up to us lowly families? And they even took the initiative to invite us!” “That’s right! Our family all thinks this is most likely a scam, and we’ve made it clear to them that we don’t want them to go. But they’re so stubborn, they insisted on going. Now look what’s happened, it’s so embarrassing!”

Jiao Bubai noticed that when these people said things like "this is a scam," "they insisted on going," and "we told them not to go," their expressions were very strange.

It seems like...a guilty conscience!
"So you think that the Xue family, who sent your daughters invitations to go to Changsheng to enjoy the flowers and the spring scenery, are the murderers who caused your daughters' sudden and mysterious death."

When Jiao Bubai arrived with the people from the Jingzhao Prefecture, Yang Qing and the others who had been brought back were already dead.

Moreover, their corpses quickly turned into mummies right under Jiao Bubai's nose and the others' noses.

Such a bizarre way of dying was something Jiao Bubai had never seen in all his years of investigating cases.

"We never said that!" The head of the Zhang family, who lived on the street opposite the Yang family, was the first to refute, his voice filled with emotion.

"Don't talk nonsense, Lord Jiao!"

The group frowned slightly, their faces showing hesitation, clearly indicating their resentment.

In the end, for reasons unknown, they chose to agree with the Zhang family head's words.

Even those who didn't verbally agree chose to remain silent in their support.

Jiao Bubai remained noncommittal, but then asked, "Besides going to Changsheng to admire the flowers and enjoy the spring scenery with Miss Xue, have any other strange things happened in your families?"

"Nothing happened. They just got back today, and this happened."

"Alas! What a tragedy! What a tragedy!"

Everyone felt that it was very unlucky for such a thing to happen in the family.

Even the Yang family, who were the first to report to the authorities, pointed their fingers at Yang Qing and cursed him as a scourge.

Jiao Bubai felt a headache coming on.

"...I understand the specifics. For now, I may need your cooperation to come with me to the Jingzhao Prefecture government office."

"In addition, I will take the bodies of the young ladies back to the Jingzhao Prefecture and hand them over to the coroner for careful examination."

"To prevent others from becoming victims, it's best not to leave the city for the time being."

Naturally, no one wanted to go to the capital, but they had no good reason to refuse Jiao Bubai.

So they could only blame the Yang family, who were the first to report the case.

"Look at you! With such an unlucky thing happening in your family, you should be keeping it a secret, why did you have to report it to the police!"

"That's exactly right!"

The Yang family remained silent for a long time, without saying a word.

They didn't intend to report it to the police, but...

That night, they had a dream! Their whole family had the same dream!!
In their dream, a voice warned them that Yang Qing would die because he had offended the wrong people and done the wrong things.

After Yang Qing's death, they were not allowed to bury him; the case had to be handed over to the Jingzhao Prefecture for trial.

If we don't report it to the police, everyone in their family will die!

"Didn't any of you have a dream?" The head of the Yang family couldn't stand the accusations from everyone and couldn't help but ask.

"What dream?"

"What nonsense are you spouting so late at night?"

"We're all talking about you, what are you talking about, dreaming or something? Are you still half asleep?"

"Now we're all affected, you'd better think about how to end this."

The crowd ignored the head of the Yang family, thinking he was just talking nonsense.