In the Anjia Mansion, Hou Qianxing was standing with one head and two heads.
"Sir, there are thirteen corpses in total, and seven people have escaped."
Hou Qianxing frowned at the scattered corpses and asked, "What did you find?"
"Sir, six of the thirteen people committed suicide by biting poison. They should all be dead soldiers. There is nothing else on their bodies to prove their identity, but... they all have a tattoo." The adjutant said this, seeming to hesitate.
For a moment.
"Tattoo? What tattoo?" Hou Qianxing frowned, walked over, squatted down, and looked at the arm of one of the corpses. He saw that there was indeed a claw-shaped tattoo on it. He thought for a moment and felt that the pattern seemed to have some impression.
I just forgot where I saw it.
"Is there anything unusual about this tattoo?" Seeing the adjutant's hesitation, Hou Qianxing was even more certain that he must have seen this pattern before, and it was also a very important pattern.
The adjutant hesitated for a moment and then said, "Sir, this is the family emblem."
"Family emblem?" Hou Qianxing was stunned, and continued to add a lot of tattoos in confusion. The more he looked at them, the more familiar they became. He asked casually, "Do you know which family it belongs to?" Generally, large families have their own iconic family emblem, but every country has its own iconic emblem.
The style is very different. The family emblems of the Yanguo family are generally related to the national flower and plum. The beasts and the like should be the enveloping tiger god, which is more popular in the Lu State.
"Yes..." The adjutant hesitated for a moment, but finally said it, "It's the emblem of the Dugu family. Sir, you have forgotten that when you saw this emblem in the file, you said that it really had the style of General Dugu.
The war wolf with its fangs and claws showing is an anomaly in Yanguo."
Hou Qianxing suddenly stood up, his face turned ugly, and he obviously remembered it.
"Sir." At this moment, another guard hurried in.
Hou Qianxing gathered his emotions and asked in a deep voice, "What's abnormal?"
"Sir, the fourth young master and seventh young lady of the An family are missing."
"What?" Hou Qianxing's expression changed again.
"Also, Concubine An's original residence seems to have been searched."
"Search? Send more people to guard Concubine An's yard, gather everyone in the An family, check them one by one, and send people to search again to look for traces of the Fourth Young Master and the Seventh Miss."
"yes."
"Sir, these..." The adjutant looked at the corpse on the ground with some concern.
Hou Qianxing raised his hand to stop him. He frowned at the corpses with a serious and cold expression, "Don't make any noise for now. Send someone to inform King Ye." King Ye actually knew that something would happen here, so he should also know something.
"Yes." After receiving the order, the adjutant walked out as if he was running away. If this case were to be like this, then it would be a big mess.
Hou Qianxing was the only one left in the courtyard.
Hou Qianxing sighed, and his eyes fell on the tattoo. His eyes were complicated, and his brows were full of worry and uneasiness.
Suddenly there was a sound, and Hou Qianxing shouted alertly, "Who?"
A shadow passed by like the wind and landed not far away from Hou Qianxing. He stood among a pile of corpses and took the lead in showing a token in his hand.
Hou Qianxing was startled when he saw the person coming. It turned out to be a woman of about seventeen or eighteen years old, wearing a purple dress. She was slightly petite and looked cute, but her pretty face was indifferent.
She actually felt a cold breath of death on her body.
And when he saw the token in her hand, he was even more surprised. This woman turned out to be from King Ye.
The person who came was Youxiang. Before Hou Qianxing could speak, she said what she wanted to say, "I am here to collect evidence on the order of the prince."
The cold voice contained no emotion, and the soft sword in his hand was shaking like a snake. In an instant, Hou Qianxing saw a few flashes of silver light, and something flew past. When the woman stopped, he saw clearly that she was dragging something in her hand.
Holding a pile of bloody human skin, looking at the corpses, the tattoos were all cut off on the arms.
Hou Qianxing's eyes widened and he looked at Youxiang in astonishment, as if he couldn't believe it. While he was surprised by this woman's extraordinary martial arts, he was also surprised by how this woman scraped off human skin without blinking or even frowning.
Youxiang didn't care about Hou Qianxing, she just took out a box, put the human skin in, and then poured some medicinal powder inside. Suddenly, she saw some smoke coming out of the box, and the woman looked at the contents of the box, and the corner of her mouth
There seemed to be a vague sarcasm, and then the lid was closed.
"Hey, wait a minute, girl, I'd like to ask, what's the use of this?" Seeing the woman turning around to leave, Hou Qianxing couldn't help but call her out quickly.
Youxiang turned her head and looked at him for the first time, but it was only a glance, and she said coldly, "No comment." Then she jumped up and disappeared without a trace, leaving Hou Qianxing alone.
land.
Shangguan Ye's four subordinates do have different personalities. They usually seem a little out of line. However, they treat outsiders or people who are not recognized by them with indifference. Even if they smile, the smile is as cold as ice.
And there are really not many people who can be treated sincerely by them.
Several people have followed Shangguan Ye since they were young. They have endured a lot of hardships, experienced a lot of life and death, and have seen different world conditions and people's hearts. They can distinguish people very clearly, and they are also very vigilant.
After Youxiang got the things, she hurried back to the palace and rushed directly to Zhaohua Palace. She was still a little worried about Murong Qiufeng.
Although Murong Qiufeng is good at martial arts and has the protection of the prince, his character is too benevolent after all, and it is easy for others to take advantage of this and hurt himself. Besides, he has no scheming. As soon as the stupid boy in Setting Sun encounters a murderer, he will
He is so crazy that he doesn't even recognize himself, so how can he care about others.
Entering the courtyard, I saw the setting sun sitting on the railing outside, holding a sword and yawning in boredom. The door inside was open, and the two masters were whispering and studying something.
Seeing the two of them, Youxiang breathed a sigh of relief. It seemed that things were going smoothly. She suddenly felt that she had a tendency to get closer to Murong Qiufeng's housekeeper girl and always worried about them.
"Master, Young Master." He walked in and took out the box, "I got the things successfully."
Shangguan Ye nodded, took the box, and opened it. There was no longer the bright red human skin inside, but a few things that looked as crumpled as paper.
Murong Qiufeng also took a look, frowned slightly, and looked at Shangguan Ye in confusion - what is this?
Shangguan Ye did not explain first, but looked at Youxiang.
Youxiang answered seriously, "These tattoos are about a year old, and the techniques seem to be the same, but they are probably not made by the same person, because the medicines used in the tattoos are different. If they are unified tattoos, they must be in charge of only one person.
Medicines rarely change, and although the medicine on this tattoo is not special, it is rare because this medicine only grows in the extremely cold country of Western Chu."
Murong Qiufeng finally understood what Youxiang meant and looked at those things again, "In other words, someone is deliberately trying to frame the Dugu family and cause chaos?" And Xi Chu, is it a coincidence or...
"It's not certain whether it was a frame-up or not." Shangguan Ye twisted the thing thoughtfully, then curled his lips and closed the box, "What's going on in An's house?"
"The fourth young master of the An family and the seventh young lady were taken away, and An Lanxin's residence was searched. It seems that they were going to find something on her?" Youxiang had been hiding, and she could clearly hear what Hou Qianxing and the others said at that time.
, and she also saw the two An family members being taken away, but she didn't take action.
"Really? If I remember correctly, the two people who were captured seem to be Concubine An's half-brothers and sisters. It seems that they wanted to threaten Concubine An. What secrets does Concubine An hold on them?"
Murong Qiufeng played with the keepsake found from Concubine An's palace.
"Do you want to go look for it?" Shangguan Ye suddenly turned to look at Murong Qiufeng, picked up a bunch of hair on his chest, leaned over and asked with a smile.
Murong Qiufeng raised his eyebrows slightly, "Hasn't he already been looked for?"
"Oh, just because they can't find it doesn't mean it's not there." Shangguan Ye narrowed his eyes.