Tang Dynasty detective

Chapter 441
Li Canghai shuddered involuntarily as he looked at the shed snake skins. Some of these snake skins were thicker than his arms.

What surprised him even more was that the color of these snake skins turned out to be pale gold.

"Honey, are these the legendary golden snakes?" Li Canghai said to himself.

sizzle~
At this time, Li Canghai suddenly heard the sound of a long snake spitting out a letter.

Li Canghai was overjoyed immediately, holding a torch in one hand and a homemade snake-clamping tool in the other, he walked over following the sound of the snake.

Pushing aside the grass, Li Canghai found several entangled snakes.

The color of these snakes was indeed pale gold. When they noticed that someone was coming, they stood up one after another, kept spitting out messages, and stared at Li Canghai vigilantly.

"Hehe, you still want to bite me? You'll have to turn into snake soup later!" Li Canghai chuckled, then aimed at several snakes, threw out the traps and caught them.

Li Canghai caught all the small snakes with long arms before they could escape, and stuffed them directly into the bamboo basket.

Li Canghai had never caught a snake before, but he learned the skill of catching snakes from the cook.

Soon, he caught five or six long snakes.

After clapping his hands lightly, Li Canghai nodded in satisfaction, thinking that it would be easy for him to go back, and there was no need to stay in this smelly place any longer, so he planned to leave.

Just as he was returning, before he had walked a few steps, he suddenly tripped over something under his feet, and fell to the ground with a plop.

Li Canghai couldn't stop crying, he didn't care about the pain, he went to look at the bamboo basket.

Fortunately, the bamboo basket didn't break open, and the snake inside didn't escape, so Li Canghai heaved a sigh of relief.

Picking up the torch and getting up from the ground, Li Canghai patted the dirt on his body and subconsciously looked down.

Seeing this made him startled.

There is actually a person lying under his feet!

The man was facing the loess and his back was facing the sky, with long hair draped over his shoulders, and wearing silk and satin, he seemed to be a rich man, but he didn't know if he was a man or a woman.

Li Canghai was puzzled, how could someone be lying here if there is no shit in this ghostly place?
"Could it be a dead man?" Li Canghai murmured to himself, then patted the man's shoulder and said, "Hey, get up! If you don't get up again, beware of being caught by the snake demon!"

However, the man didn't respond.

Li Canghai's heart sank, and he quickly turned the man over.

When the man turned over, Li Canghai couldn't help but gasped.

Unfortunately, as he guessed, it was a dead person.

And, still a woman.

This woman's hair is disheveled, and her appearance should be considered pretty, but the blood flowing from her seven orifices makes her look like a ghost crawling out of hell, which makes people feel a little creepy.

Li Canghai felt a chill run down his spine, and he suddenly remembered a horror movie he had seen in his previous life - Sadako!

"Damn it, isn't this the real Sadako?" Li Canghai shuddered abruptly.

But then he shook his head vigorously, calmed down his mood, and carefully observed the corpse.

This female corpse was in her prime, and the clothes she was wearing were not Tang costumes, but Japanese kimonos.

The clothes are expensive and embroidered with clouds and golden chrysanthemums. From this point, it can be seen that she is definitely not an ordinary woman.

"Could it be that she is a member of the envoy?" Li Canghai frowned slightly, but there seemed to be no other women in the envoy except the princess and the maid.

After thinking about it carefully, Li Canghai decided to tell Conan about it.

Judging from what the female corpse is wearing, it must have a certain status, and Conan will know something more or less.

Thinking of this, Li Canghai got some dry firewood, lit a fire, and then poured strong wine around the female corpse.

This place is close to a swamp, and there are many snakes in it. The purpose of lighting a fire is to keep the snakes from getting close to the corpse.

After finishing these, Li Canghai picked up the bamboo basket and quickly left the swamp.

In the dark night, it was difficult to tell the direction. After entering the dense forest, Li Canghai realized that he had taken the wrong path.

Fortunately, there are still stars in the sky.

With his neck held high, Li Canghai kept looking at the sky, taking Polaris as the orientation, and stumbling, it took more than two hours before he walked back to the shrine.

When he came to the shrine, he saw Wanyu sitting in front of the door, crying softly with his hands on his shoulders, while Conan kept talking, as if he was comforting her.

"I'm back!" Li Canghai yelled as he wiped the sweat off his forehead.

Upon hearing this, Wanyu hurriedly raised her head to look, and indeed she saw Li Canghai.

She wiped away her tears, hurriedly ran to Li Canghai, sobbing: "My lord, where have you been? Wanyu is so worried about you."

Li Canghai put down the bamboo basket, and said with a smile, "I went to get some wild game, and I'll let the cook cook a delicious meal later, and I'll give you a toothbrush sacrifice."

Conan also came over and said reproachfully: "Brother Li, this island is full of dangers, how can you go out alone, what should you do if you encounter danger?"

Li Canghai didn't care to say anything else, and hurriedly asked: "Brother Conan, this time you are going to the Tang Dynasty, how many women are there with the boat?"

Seeing his haste, Conan asked suspiciously: "There are only the princess and Lingji, why did Brother Li ask this?"

"Only two? That's strange." Li Canghai frowned slightly, and said to himself.

"What's so strange about this?" Conan asked puzzled.

Li Canghai glanced at him, and said in a deep voice: "To be honest, I found a female corpse. The female corpse was wearing your Japanese attire. I thought it was someone accompanying you, but now it seems that it is not."

"Female corpse? Still wearing our Japanese clothes?" Conan froze for a moment.

Li Canghai nodded and said, "I was worried that it might be one of yours, so I ran back to ask you."

Conan thought for a while and said, "I'm going to ask the princess to see if Ling Ji has gone out."

"I'll go with you!" Li Canghai said.

"I want to go too!" Wanyu said.

Li Canghai nodded, handed the ancient bronze sword to Wanyu, and then led her, followed Conan, towards the hall.

Outside the entrance of the hall, the skinny guard was still soundly asleep, with half a bowl of porridge and two wild vegetable pancakes beside him.

There was already a layer of dust in the porridge, and there were even a few ants crawling on the wild vegetable cakes. It seemed that the skinny guard hadn't moved since the food was delivered.

The cook was right when he said he was too lazy to eat.

"Princess, my minister, Conan, please see me, I have something important to report to the princess!" The matter was urgent, and Conan didn't care about letting the skinny guard report, so he stood in front of the door and shouted loudly.

The skinny guard seemed to have fallen into a death-like sleep, and did not respond to Conan's yelling at all.

There was silence in the shrine, and Conan called again and again, but there was still no response.

"My lord, he is so loud and no one inside responds, could there be an accident?" Wanyu asked Li Canghai softly.

When Conan heard this, his expression suddenly became anxious.

(End of this chapter)