Volume 4: The Case of the Dust in the Mirror Chapter 100: The Bloody Sedan
Early the next morning, Duan Ming and Li Waner rushed towards the Mirror Division together.
Soon the two arrived at the Mingjing Division's headquarters, and after a brief inquiry, they learned that Xu Shizhong and other Xing Qianqiu's cronies had been sent to Beijing to perform tasks outside.
Now, the commander of the Mirror Division, Dugu Haoyue, has taken over the power and controls the entire Mirror Division.
And looking for Dugu Haoyue to help them save Qianqiu?
Although Duan Ming didn't particularly understand the relationship between Dugu Haoyue and Xing Qianqiu, he also understood that it was like looking for a cat to save a mouse.
Unless it's Tom and Jerry, it's just a dream.
With no other choice, Duan Ming and his two men had no choice but to continue riding their horses to the Imperial City Division's headquarters near the palace.
Since Li Waner was there, no one stopped Duan Ming and Li Waner, and they directly met the person Song Yi asked them to meet - the current deputy commander of the Imperial City Division, Yu Chen.
Yu Chen was surprised when he saw Li Waner. Although Li Waner didn't know him, he knew the dignified Princess Mingzhu.
It's just that Yu Chen can't figure out what Li Waner wants to do with him?
Duan Ming didn't do any ink. When he saw Yu Chen, he took out Song Yi's jade pendant.
After Yu Chen saw Song Yi's jade pendant, his expression suddenly changed. After looking around cautiously, he said to Duan Ming: "You two, please follow me."
Duan Ming and Li Waner then left the Imperial City Division under the leadership of Yu Chen and came to a secluded teahouse.
Yu Chen led the two of them to a secluded box in the teahouse, and then said in a deep voice: "Why is Commander Song's jade pendant in your hand?"
"You should know why, he handed this to me personally." Duan Ming said solemnly: "What happened to Xing Qianqiu?"
"Hmm..." Yu Chen thought for a while and said: "Since you mentioned Commander Xing, it seems that this jade pendant was indeed given to you by Commander Song, so I won't let it go. This matter has to start in July last year.
Speaking of the 22nd..."
The weather in July is still a bit sultry, especially since the capital is located in the south, and the temperature is even higher.
Originally, at this time every year, the emperor would move to the summer resort farther north to handle government affairs. However, due to this year's Linzhou scholar case and the ancient temple fire case, there were too many government affairs, so the emperor temporarily decided not to go north this year.
Already.
On July 22nd, the emperor had just finished handling government affairs. Because the weather was sultry, he decided to go for a walk in the Imperial Garden to escape the scorching sun.
However, while the emperor was wandering around the imperial garden, he suddenly discovered something that should not have appeared in the imperial garden - a sedan, a blood-red sedan.
The size of this sedan is no different from an ordinary sedan, but it is blood red all over, and there are all kinds of weird runes painted on the door curtain.
These runes look like grimaces, some looking like crying and some looking like smiling.
The guards at that time were frightened. They knew that few people could enter the imperial garden. It was so weird to see such a bloody sedan out of thin air.
If the emperor was angry because of this, a large number of people would probably die.
However, the emperor has experienced many things, and he once walked out of a mountain of corpses and a sea of blood. How could such a small scene scare him?
Therefore, the emperor did not pay too much attention and just asked the people in the royal hoeing room to investigate whether it was their people who did it.
But what happened next made the emperor furious.
Because when the guards inspected the blood sedan, they discovered that there was actually a paper man in the blood sedan.
The paper figurine is human-sized and looks like a woman.
And on the body of the paper figure, there is a line of words written in blood red: "The Blood Ancestor gave a blood sedan, and summoned Wanshu to serve in the Blood Palace in three days."
Wanshu was Concubine Shu in the palace. Although she was not very favored by the emperor, the emperor would occasionally go to her place to rest.
Concubine Shu had excellent massage techniques. Whenever the emperor was physically and mentally exhausted due to government affairs, Concubine Shu would use this unique massage technique to relieve the emperor's fatigue.
Moreover, even if Concubine Shu did not have such ability, which emperor could tolerate his concubine being summoned to serve by the so-called "Blood Ancestor"?
As a result, the emperor was furious. He first ordered the Imperial City Department to block the news, and then ordered Song Rengui, the commander of the Imperial City Department, to solve the case within a time limit and find out this "blood ancestor"!
Song Rengui immediately took the order and conducted a thorough investigation of all the guards guarding the imperial garden and everyone in the imperial hoeing room.
But no one saw anyone carrying the sedan chair into the imperial garden.
"No one saw it?" Song Rengui was furious immediately: "Could it be possible that this bloody sedan could have flown down from the sky?"
Song Rengui then searched little by little, but did not find any clues.
And just when Song Rengui was intensively investigating the case, Concubine Shu, who had been staying in his palace, suddenly disappeared.
Yes, there was no trace, it was not seen by anyone, it just disappeared out of thin air.
Song Rengui immediately led people to rush there, but there was no sign of struggle in Concubine Shu's palace. He asked everyone in the palace and found nothing.
For this reason, the emperor was extremely angry and scolded Song Rengui.
At the same time, Song Rengui was stripped of his status as the commander of the Imperial City Department and demoted to Linyang City in Linzhou, where he became a small captain of the city defense department.
A few days later, the Imperial City Division still found nothing, and Cui Hao, the new commander of the Imperial City Division, was also unable to solve the case.
The emperor then turned his attention to Xing Qianqiu, the deputy commander of the Mirror Division who had repeatedly solved strange cases.
Just when the emperor wanted to let Xing Qianqiu take over and investigate the case, a major case of hundreds of ghosts walking at night occurred in Linyang City.
Since Da Chu's delegation is in Linyang City, this matter affects Da Qi's face.
Therefore, even though the emperor was extremely angry, he had no choice but to let Xing Qianqiu go to Linyang City first to solve the case of the Hundred Ghosts at Night.
Later, Xing Qianqiu solved a strange case again and escorted the murderer of the Hyakki Night case back to Kyoto.
After the emperor greatly rewarded him, he directly handed over the Imperial City Blood Sedan Case to Xing Qianqiu.
Xing Qianqiu did not dare to delay and immediately began to investigate, but after a long investigation, there were still no clues.
However, the emperor was not an unreasonable person, and he understood that more than a month had passed since the case, and many clues had long since disappeared.
Therefore, Xing Qianqiu was not punished, but Xing Qianqiu was asked to investigate slowly.
It's the best he can find. Even if he can't find it, it's not his fault.
Although Xing Qianqiu did not dare to neglect, he was indeed powerless.
Fortunately, the same case never happened again in the following days, and this matter gradually fell into disuse.
But all this changed at the beginning of this year.
Just on the first day of the new year, the blood sedan appeared again in the imperial garden!
