Liaozhai: I just want salted fish with invincible magical powers

Chapter 289 The Mystery
"Corpse?"

Jiao Na paused for a moment, and said after a long time: "The corpses are all parked here...wait...the corpses of Princess Wang and Lin Qiaoer are gone."

"Is anyone out in the palace courtyard?"

"No."

"Is there someone guarding the dry well?"

"Yes, Guo Yushou is there."

Hu Qian frowned, and looked at the map on the table again, feeling a little helpless for a while.

There must be something missing, where is it?

Tablets, wood carvings, white shadows, closed anus, scorpions, disappearing corpses...

"Let them go down and look for it!"

"My lord, no one wants to go down... let me go down."

"Forget it, it's too dangerous, you'd better not go down."

"It's fine, with my mana, it should be fine, and besides, there is the golden talisman of the lord."

Hu Qian nodded, "Okay then, you must be careful."

Thinking that the murderer was not a ghost, Jiaona could still deal with it.

After all, she was facing the snake monster head-on.

"Don't worry, my lord, I will come back to wash everyone's feet."

Hu Qian's heart warmed up, and he said a few more words.

After a while, Jiao Na said: "My lord, under the dry well, the bricks on the side have been cut open, and there is a small door."

"A door? What kind of door?"

"Blood red, as if made of stone.

There are traces of paint on it.

I'll go in and have a look. "

"Be careful."

"It's very dark inside, wait a minute, the traces of the paint also extend here, the front is..."

After Jiaona said something, she stopped suddenly. Hu Qian's heart tightened, and he quickly asked, "What's in front? Jiaona? What's wrong with you?"

After asking three times in a row, Jiao Na didn't respond.

Hu Qian hesitated for a moment, and immediately rushed to the door. Just as he was about to open the door and go out, he suddenly heard Jiao Na say, "My lord, I'm fine. I just missed my foot and fell into the hole below."

Hu Qian breathed a sigh of relief at this moment, "If there is any danger, forget it, I will come soon."

"It's okay my lord.

There are a lot of bones down here. "

"What bone? Human or animal?"

"There are, most of them are animal bones, and there are very few animal bones.

wait, what is this?what!The bodies of the princess and Lin Qiaoer are also here.

Now being torn and eaten by a group of scorpions. "

"A group of scorpions...eating..."

Hu Qian suddenly felt a little nauseous, but now, it ruled out a guess in his mind.

Lin Qiaoer was seriously injured before, although she died, but when she first came to Guo Bei, the prostitute Xiaoyu was not dead, but she somehow got out of the morgue.

So when he heard that Lin Qiaoer was seriously injured, Hu Qian immediately suspected that the murderer was only her, and that the serious injury was just to cover up people's eyes and ears.

But now, even her body was about to be eaten away, so it probably wasn't her anymore.

But why did the murderer drag the bodies of her and the princess into the cave again?

He couldn't figure it out, and when he was in distress, Jiao Na suddenly said: "My lord, there is a secret passage in this cave.

There are also traces of paint in the secret passage. "

"There are traces of paint in the secret passage?"

"Go in and have a look."

At this time, I can't care much.

Jiao Na responded, and hurried into the secret passage.

After a long while, the voice transmitted again: "My lord, there are several forks in this secret path, I will just pick one and try it now."

However, a moment later, Jiao Na said again: "My lord, there is another fork in this fork, and finally it is a dead end.

I don't know who made a maze-like thing under the palace. "

The more Hu Qian listened, the more uncertain he became, and he wished he could go there.

After thinking about it, he said, "Is there still guards at the door of each room?"

"Yes, my lord."

"Well, you don't need to look for it now, just get out first, I have a solution."

"But I seem to be lost now, and I can't find my way back. I'm sorry, my lord, I have caused you trouble, please give me some time?"

"Don't worry, take your time."

After about half an hour, Jiao Na responded: "My lord, I have come out of the dry well, what should I do now?"

Hu Qian said: "Let Guo Yu and Bai Yufeng prepare firewood, put it in the well to suffocate the smoke, and then cover the lid with something."

"My lord is really amazing! That's right, why didn't I think of this method."

"Tell those Jin Yiwei, guard all the rooms, if there is smoke coming out of that room, catch the people inside!"

"Don't worry, my lord! I'll tell them right away!"

After saying this, there was no sound.

Hu Qian paced around the room anxiously.

Although I feel that there will definitely be gains, I still have some worries about gains and losses, and I don't know what to do.

Another half an hour later, Jiao Na suddenly said: "My lord, the Wangfei, Lin Qiaoer, Han Meifeng and other dead people's houses all had smoke coming out, and the room where the memorial tablet appeared also had fireworks."

"any left?"

Hu Qian had expected that there would be fireworks in the houses of the dead, but it was another person that caught his attention the most.

"My lord, there are also fireworks in the palace chief's history house. There were few at first, but then there were more."

Hu Qian was overjoyed, "It really is him! He must have blocked the entrance of the cave, but then the smoke increased and he couldn't block it anymore!"

After a while, Jiao Na said happily again: "My lord, Chang Shi admitted it."

"Admit what?"

"He said he raised the scorpions and killed the people."

"Why? Why did he kill people?"

"He said that he has been with the King of Beirong for so many years, not to mention any hard work, but at least hard work and fatigue, but the King of Beirong didn't miss the old love, and took away his beloved woman Lin Qiaoer.

That's why he learned the method of raising scorpions from Southern Xinjiang. First, he dug a tunnel in a dry well, and then let the scorpion sneak into the room of the princess and others to kill and take revenge. "

Hu Qian shook his head and said: "It's too vague, ask for specifics, let him start from the beginning, I always feel that there is something wrong."

Jiao Na said: "He said that he went to find Lin Qiaoyun at first and wanted to elope with her, but Lin Qiaoyun refused.

At that time, he let the scorpions dig tunnels. At the beginning, they dug tunnels that people could pass through, but this was too time-consuming, so the later secret tunnels could only allow the scorpions to pass through. "

Hu Qian nodded.

That's right, so Jiaona walked a few times and it was a dead end.

No wonder no secret passages were found in the small courtyard. It turns out that there are small holes that only scorpions can pass through. These small holes are likely to be in many inconspicuous places, and most of them will not attract the attention of others.

"Ask how he killed the princess?"

"He said he knew all the places in the palace well, so after he asked the scorpion to dig the passage, he put the tablets and wooden carvings into the room in the small courtyard at night, and then made a kite-like strip of white cloth and tied it with a thin thread.

Then, in the middle of the night, let the scorpion run on the roof with a thin thread, creating the illusion of a white shadow shaking.

Then let the scorpion go to the princess' room and stung her while she was sleeping.

After that, when everyone saw the tablet in the house, they all thought it was Princess Xuanyi's revenge. "

Hu Qian thought about it carefully, and it seemed that there was no flaw.

After all, it is relatively easy to kill for the first time, because everyone has no defense.

"Afterwards, he basically used this method. First, he used tablets and wooden carvings to frighten people, and then let the scorpions kill people."

"Ask him what happened when he killed Lin Qiaoer?"

"He said that the scorpion used to kill Lin Qiaoer had long been in ambush in Lin Qiaoer's quilt cotton, but he was hesitant, so he didn't do it for a long time. Later, he saw that King Beirong was with Lin Qiaoer day and night, and he was annoyed, so he let the scorpion do it. , Who would have thought that the scorpion had been covered under the quilt for a long time, lacking in vitality, it just cut through Lin Qiaoer's skin and died."

"The scorpion is dead? What about the body? Where is the scorpion's body?"

"When he saw that Lin Qiaoer didn't die immediately, he knew something was wrong, but at that time the palace was already under strict inspection, so he didn't go immediately, but let another scorpion kill Lin Qiaoer later, and then he mixed in , and take the scorpion's body away."

"What's going on with the white shadow? Didn't King Beirong say that he saw a flash of the white shadow? At such a short distance, it's impossible to be the shadow of the scorpion on the eaves."

"He said he put it away himself.

He first prepared a white cloth, and when he got out of Lin Qiaoer's window, he immediately took out the cloth and let the scorpion pull it away, which created the illusion that the white shadow suddenly appeared. "

"Ask him, why did he steal the bodies of the princess and Lin Qiaoer, and how did he steal them!"

"He said that he wanted to get Lin Qiaoer's body because he couldn't get Lin Qiaoer's person. As for the princess, he planned to insult the body and take revenge on King Beirong.

Although he was ordered not to leave the house, he had already let the scorpion open a secret passage leading to the dry well.

So he first sneaked into the dry well, then used his familiarity with the palace to avoid Jin Yiwei, and then came out of the dry well, and moved the bodies of the princess and Lin Qiaoer into the well. "

"Let him explain in detail how he killed Han Meifeng."

"He said that he first let a scorpion kill Han Meifeng, and at the same time he went to steal the bodies of Princess Wang and Lin Qiaoer.

Unexpectedly, after the scorpion went in, it was stained with paint and retreated into the dry well.

He didn't know about it himself, and he didn't know that he was exposed until he saw smoke in the room. "

Pausing for a while, seeing that Hu Qian didn't speak anymore, Jiao Na said again: "My lord, now the King of Beirong wants to play the Emperor Ming, and wants to tear Chang Shi into ten thousand pieces. Is this enough?"

Hu Qian still did not speak, but was waiting for a reminder.

It stands to reason that since everything has been revealed, the hint will definitely appear.

But now that the chief minister of the palace has confessed, the reminder has not appeared for a long time.

This can only explain one problem - the truth that Wangfu Changshi said is not the real truth.

what is it then……

He thought and thought, and suddenly said: "Jiaona, are the bodies of the princess and Lin Qiaoer still in the dry well?"

"No, it was carried out of the dry well before it was ignited. I also caught a few scorpions by the way. I plan to study its toxicity later."

"What did you say you saw the scorpion doing?"

"Eating the corpses of the princess and Lin Qiaoer."

"correct!"

Hu Qian patted his thigh.

If it is according to what the chief of the palace said, since he is reluctant to let Lin Qiaoer's body follow King Beirong, how can he be willing to have her body destroyed and eaten by his own scorpion!

If this is the case, it means that the relationship between Wang Fuchang Shi and Lin Qiaoer was a complete lie.

"Ask him who his helper is!
Who raised these scorpions! "

Jiao Na said: "Okay, ah, don't..."

Hu Qian was taken aback, "What's wrong?"

Jiao Na said: "He saw that I hadn't spoken for a long time, and his expression was a bit unnatural, and then I saw a black spot moving on the corner of his clothes, it turned out to be a scorpion!"

"Is he going to commit suicide? No, or is someone going to kill him?"

Hu Qian was so anxious that he ran around the room—if he was there, he would beat up the palace chief Shi, and then use the magic power of nightmare prayer, basically he would know everything, and there would be no need for such trouble.

But thinking about the quadruple reward, he still resisted the urge to rush out.

"My lord, I've got him under control.

But he refused to speak, what should we do? "

Hu Qian frowned and asked, "Is the scorpion in your hand still alive?"

"Alive, with teeth and claws."

Hu Qian said: "Okay, tell King Beirong that the chief of the palace, Shi, is at most an accomplice, and the real culprit has not been caught yet.

Then tied Chang Shi in the yard and kept him under strict watch, so as not to let him die.

By the way, is the scorpion who wanted to kill Chang Shi just now also in your hands? "

"Yes, there."

"Okay, now block the dry well, and then put the scorpions one by one at the feet of Wangfu Changshi.

Be careful not to put too much at once, just put them one by one, and then be careful not to let them sting people. "

"My lord, it was finally caught, why did you let it go?"

"Just do as I say."

After a while, Jiao Na said: "My lord, the first scorpion was released, and it ran around like a headless chicken."

"Grab it and get another one."

"The same goes for the second one."

"Catch and let go!"

"The same goes for the third one."

"continue!"

"My lord, this scorpion has escaped!"

"Is it the one that came to kill the palace chief Shi just now!"

"Yes, that's it, and now it's gone!"

"Catch up! See where it's going!"

After a while, Jiao Na happily said: "My lord, it went to a servant's room.

My lord, I understand, it is going back to its master! "

"Yes, how many people are there?"

"Only an old woman."

"Catch her, she is the real murderer, don't let her die!"

"Don't worry, adults!"

After half an hour, Jiao Na sensed again: "My lord, the question came out, and she said everything."

"How? Why did she kill people?"

"My lord, she...she said she is Princess Xuanyi's personal maid..."

"The Dali Dynasty has been destroyed for so long, even if she is Princess Xuanyi's personal maid, she should have died long ago..."

"She said that after the princess was humiliated and died, she searched for immortals and asked about it. Later, she learned the ability to raise poison in southern Xinjiang, and then sneaked into the mansion to prepare for revenge."

"What's the relationship between her and the chief minister of the palace?"

"The Chief of the Palace, Shi, is an abandoned baby she rescued."

"Since it's revenge, why don't you go to the emperor and the others, and choose people like the concubine of King Beirong?"

"That's because King Beirong has a huge secret..."

(End of this chapter)