The stench and heat made Mei Changsu a little dizzy, but Mei Changsu knew that the current situation would not allow him to leave.

"Did you find the murder weapon?" Mei Changsu asked calmly as he took out a porcelain bottle from his sleeves, opened it and put it under his nose and took a sniff.

"Yes! It was abandoned in the small courtyard to the south." Jiang Jian replied.

"Is the small courtyard in the south the courtyard where the eldest young master of the Fu family lives?" The fragrance of silver elixir grass dispelled the stench that hit the tip of his nose. Mei Changsu breathed a sigh of relief and threw the porcelain bottle to Li Gang.

"Exactly!" Jiang Jiandao.

"Take me to see the corpses with their heads separated, and then send someone to fetch the murder weapons." Mei Changsu said.

"Li Gu, go get the knife." Jiang Jian said to a man next to him.

The man accepted the order and left. Jiang Jian then bowed and said, "Sect Master, you come with me." After saying this, he walked to the other side.

Mei Changsu calmly nodded to Li Gang and followed Jiang Jian.

"Where are we going?" Wu Dahai shouted angrily, "Sect Master Mei, can I leave?"

"Don't worry, Master Wu!" Li Gang stepped forward with a smile on his face, "When this matter is over, the sect master will send someone to take you back."

"...Where are they going?" Wu Dahai shouted, "Did those corpses be placed in the front yard?"

"No, the sect leader has ordered that Mr. Fu's family and his separated bodies must be placed in an ice cellar."

"Ice, ice cellar!" Wu Dahai shivered, "You mean, Sect Master Mei asked you to put Mr. Fu and several separated bodies in the Fu family's ice cellar?"

"right!"

The sun was scorching, but Wu Dahai shuddered, endured it for a while, raised his head and said, "What if, what if the Fu family doesn't have an ice cellar?"

"Even if a large family does not have an ice cellar, it will have a cellar. Although the preservation of the corpse will be worse, it is better than nothing." Li Gang answered calmly, but his eyes were locked on Mei Changsu who was a few steps away.

, "If it is a small family, there will not be so many people, and there will be three or five corpses. There is a place for them at the Jiangzuo League Hall."

"Can the ice cellar where the corpses are left still be used to store food?" Wu Dahai couldn't help but ask.

"The alliance has an ice cellar specifically for storing corpses. As for the house where the crime occurred, there is nothing more important than letting the souls rest in peace." Li Gang replied proudly.

In an instant, Wu Dahai understood why the Jiangzuo Alliance was able to jump from eighth to fifth on the Langya Ranking within one year.

"Let's go quickly, Master Wu. The sect master will ask questions later." Li Gang's tone did not allow for refutation.

"Oh." Wu Dahai muttered in his heart: Who is this person? None of the adults in our family have this kind of momentum.

"Oh, that's right!" Li Gang seemed to think of something again, and suddenly stopped and handed the porcelain bottle that Mei Changsu had given him to Wu Dahai, "Smell it!"

"This is..." Before Wu Dahai could regain his senses, another medicinal cloth exuding the scent of rugosa was handed to him.

"Put this on!" Li Gang himself covered his mouth and nose with medicinal cloth.

"This..." An indescribable feeling spread in Wu Dahai's heart.

"The sect master will not let his subordinates or those who help him get hurt!" Li Gang's words were soft, but they hit Wu Dahai's heart like a heavy hammer.

Is this the reason why Jiangzuo League is united? Wu Dahai thought to himself.

In the ice cellar, Jiang Jian was identifying the body to Mei Changsu.

Master Fu, Mrs. Fu,

The eldest young master and young lady of the Fu family...

He remembered the names and faces of everyone who attended his crowning ceremony.

But he never thought that just a few months later, when he saw Mr. Fu again, he would see a scene like this.

Mei Changsu sighed softly, stretched out his hand and closed his angry eyes.

Jiang Jian then walked to the other side, and Mei Changsu's eyes became even darker. Others might not notice it, but Mei Changsu himself knew that his legs were trembling.

Not because of fear, but because he thought of his tribe.

His nine clans were also in the tragic state of being separated from their bodies and heads.

The only person who could save their bodies for them has yet to take a step into Jinling.

Mei Changsu's legs were heavy and he moved to the other side with difficulty. He frowned as he looked at the miserable situation on the ground.

"Master Wu!" Mei Changsu called softly, "Why are these corpses so changed beyond recognition?"

"Sect Master Mei!" Wu Dahai bowed forward, "The heads of the young lady and her personal maid fell into the well. When the officials fished them out, their heads were already blurred by blisters."

When Wu Dahai saw Mei Changsu nodding, he pursed his lips and added: "Ichigoin's head happened to fall next to a lantern, and his face was burned by the candle, while the heads of Fu's parents and grandson rolled in the ditch, so

..."

"How can we confirm their identities since they are completely unrecognizable?" He had seen too many methods in Lin Chen's collection of books, and wondered if they would be useful today? Mei Changsu thought to himself as he rubbed his cold fingers.

"The young lady and her maids were identified by the headdresses they wore; it was easier to find the parents and grandchildren, as he was the only child in the whole mansion; the remaining corpses were identified by knife wounds." Wu Dahai.

replied.

Mei Changsu knelt down, held up the left hand of one of the female corpses, and asked in a deep voice: "This is it?"

"This luxuriously dressed woman is Ouyang Yao, the young lady of the Fu family!" Wu Dahai replied.

"No!" Mei Changsu shook his head and snorted, "She is not Ouyang Yao!"

Before anyone present could ask, Mei Changsu had already asked: "Is there an old, bold and careful Wenpo in Anpu Hall? Or is it an old bustard who is strict in speaking?"

"Sect Master, what do you want?" Jiang Jian bowed and asked.

"Ouyang Yao was on the list of Langya beauties and played the piano very well. People who play the piano will have thin calluses on the side of the first joint of the ring finger and the first joint of the thumb on their left hand. But on this corpse, the calluses are there.

The fingertips of her left hand. Her, the musical instrument she is good at is the pipa."

"Ah? Then, where is the young lady of the Fu family?" Jiang Jian asked stutteringly.

"I don't know!" The miscellaneous books he read finally became useful, which made Mei Changsu have mixed feelings. He said softly, "Therefore, I need a stable woman or a madam to check her body. If she is perfect, she may be from a brothel.

If not, she should be a prostitute in a brothel or a concubine of a distinguished person. Once her identity is confirmed, her origins can be traced."

After finishing speaking, Mei Changsu turned his eyes to the boy beside him, wondering if his mother's whereabouts were unknown, could this child be too?

Mei Changsu only touched the boy's hand and said, "This boy's hands are covered with calluses. He shouldn't be the grandson of Fu!"

"Could it be that the young lady of the Fu family was having an affair with the manager and invited a thief to work together inside and outside?" Jiang Jian blurted out.

"No, the young lady of the Fu family has been kidnapped by thieves!" Mei Changsu glared at Jiang Jian coldly, "If the young lady of the Fu family and the stewards cooperated inside and outside, they would have been prepared, and a lot of property in the mansion would have been lost."

Li Gang had long been accustomed to Mei Changsu's shocking words, but Jiang Jian and Wu Dahai experienced Jiang Zuo Meilang's demeanor several times in just half a day. They were shocked and couldn't help secretly praising him.

"This matter is related to the reputation of the young lady of the Fu family, so I need a woman with strict words to help Master Wu examine the body." Mei Changsu said in a deep voice, "Is there such a woman in Jiang Jian, Anpu?

If not, just wait one more day, and when Master Ouyang arrives, he will choose the candidate."

"..." Jiang Jian lost his previous composure: Who should he go to for such a thing?

"Sect Master Mei, my wife is a stable woman, can I let my wife come?" Wu Dahai on the side said after some struggle, "I will tell my wife that she is the most powerful one."

"Okay!" Mei Changsu nodded and said to Jiang Jianda, "Go and invite Mrs. Wu, and remember to hire a carriage."

"Yes!" Jiang Jian took the order and left.

Mei Changsu turned his head and said politely, "Master Wu, could you please check the other corpses with me?"

"yes!"

When this matter is over, he will submit to the Jiangzuo Alliance. This is Wu Dahai's only thought at the moment.

On moonless nights, cicadas chirp and frogs chirp, and disturbed birds flap their wings and fly away.

"Da da da!"

"Hurry up!"

Accompanied by the sound of urging, dozens of horses galloped through the mountains and fields.

Everyone knows what happened, everyone knows it's too late, but we still have to hurry! Hurry!

The sky gradually becomes brighter, the red sun rises, and a new day begins.

"Neigh!" With a neigh, a big maroon horse fell to the ground.

When several people galloping behind saw this, they reined in their reins one after another, and those who were riding ahead also turned their horses' heads.

"Aying, what's wrong?" someone asked.

"..." The man called Aying knelt down and looked at the fallen horse, and said, "It's dead."

"You can ride with me, I can't delay my lady's affairs," said the man who asked the question earlier.

"Okay!" Li Ying responded and was about to get on his horse. Someone else said: "Rest where you are and set off in half an hour!" Ouyang Mo said and got off the horse, with a look of indifference on his resolute face, "Far away mountains,

How far do we have to go?"

"Master Ouyang, if we set off in half an hour, we can reach Anpu City before midnight." Yuan Shan dismounted his horse, looked around, estimated the approximate location, and replied.

"What are we going to Anpu City for? How long is the distance to the Fu family's main residence?" Ouyang Mo said, suppressing the anger in his heart.

"At noon, we'll be there before noon!" Yuan Shan replied hurriedly.

"We'll be there before noon!" Ouyang Mo repeated in a cold voice, punching the tree trunk beside him. The tree trunk shook and green leaves fell all over the ground, "Damn it, why didn't you come to me earlier?"
To be continued...