Gu Qiancheng and Qin Jiyan checked other places in the Goddess Temple. They came here just to see the mummy in the secret room. After checking, neither Qin Jiyan nor Gu Qiancheng wanted to stay where the corpses were.
, the two came out quickly.
The mummies in the secret room could not be moved, Qin Jiyan could only keep people under guard, and asked people to prepare the tools for the mummies so that Gu Qiancheng could inspect the mummies two days later.
Stained with corpse gas, the two of them did not rush to get into the carriage. Instead, they walked twice under the sun to bask in the sun to get rid of the corpse gas on their bodies. They waited until they were about to get back to the carriage.
At this time, Gu Qiancheng had completely controlled his mood and did not show any sadness. As soon as he got on the carriage, Gu Qiancheng discussed the mummies with Qin Jiyan.
The two of them were thinking about how the mummies were put in?
The mouth of the jar is so small that only one head can fit in. Even if the flesh and blood are dried, the waist cannot be stuffed through the hole.
"Judging from the dried mummies, the murderer did not cut the corpse into pieces. Although the corpse was twisted into a ball, it was still intact." Gu Qiancheng dipped his fingers in water, drew a jar shape on the coffee table, and rubbed it
He held his chin and thought about all the possibilities of putting the body inside.
Qin Jiyan knew that Gu Qiancheng was not asking about him, so he did not speak. He just looked at Gu Qiancheng without speaking and quietly worked with Gu Qiancheng.
Along the way, Gu Qiancheng thought about many possibilities, but was eventually overthrown by himself. Until he arrived at the city gate, Gu Qiancheng had not figured out a way to stuff the complete body into the jar.
"Okay, don't think about it anymore. You'll find out later when you open the jar." Qin Jiyan was afraid that Gu Qiancheng would be upset by thinking too much.
"I don't want to anymore." Gu Qiancheng sighed, "It's useless to think of the reasons. The most important thing is to find the murderer."
"Yeah." Qin Jiyan responded and did not continue, fearing that Gu Qiancheng would not rest again.
When he left the city in the morning, Yan Qing told the soldiers guarding the city that if he saw Qin Jiyan's carriage again, he would just let it go and not come forward to inspect it.
Therefore, when the carriage came to the city gate again, the soldiers guarding the city did not remind Qin Jiyan to get off the carriage, but only checked outside the carriage before letting him go.
What Qin Jiyan enjoys is not the privilege, but the right he has. It's like, if the palace wants to check everyone who comes in and out, does anyone dare to check the emperor?
Gu Qiancheng wanted to see the statue of the goddess. After entering the city, the coachman drove the carriage directly to the six doors.
Gu Qiancheng hadn't been here for a long time, but people at the Six Doors remembered her. When they saw her and Qin Jiyan appearing together, everyone at the Six Doors were not surprised, and everyone said hello.
"Liumen is getting more and more lively." Different from the previous few visits, now everyone in Liumen is full of energy and energy.
"Yes. I am now in the household department." Qin Jiyan said something that Feng Niuma didn't believe, but Gu Qiancheng miraculously discovered that she understood.
Qin Jiyan is now in the Ministry of Revenue, which is in charge of money. It is not difficult for him to approve an extra sum of money for the six doors, and people with money under his command are naturally willing to work hard.
Gu Qiancheng's guess was absolutely correct. Now Liumen is the department with the best welfare among the six departments, and every time a case is solved, Qin Jiyan will give a certain proportion of rewards to his subordinates, which fully mobilizes the enthusiasm of the people in Liumen.
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Qin Jiyan took Gu Qiancheng to his office room. After the servant who brought tea went down, he took out the little goddess statue. "Take a look."
It was exactly the same as the statue of the goddess in the Goddess Temple, but the size was different. Gu Qiancheng held it in his hand and looked at the carving carefully, "It should be made by the same person."
"Yes. I asked a famous sculptor to see it. Both the large and small goddess statues were made by the same person. The other's sculptor was extraordinary and his level was above the master level, but no one could tell which master made it." The famous master said.
They all have their own style. As long as the works are alive, people who work with them can recognize it, but no one can recognize the statue of the goddess.
"It's impossible that there was no movement at all when the statue of the goddess was carved. It was just too early and it's hard to check now." After Gu Qiancheng finished speaking, he stared into the eyes of the small statue of the goddess.
The eyes of the small goddess statue are also vividly carved and can make people obsessed with looking at them, but they do not have the hypnotic power of the goddess statue to bewitch people's hearts.
"There doesn't seem to be anything wrong with the little goddess statue?" Gu Qiancheng turned over and over, but found nothing strange. He thought to himself: Could it be that her willpower is too strong and she can't be hypnotized easily?
"Indeed, I have asked all six doors to be visited, and no one will be affected by it. But..." Qin Jiyan changed the topic, "I have checked the people who worship the statue of the little goddess, and they are all extremely pious.
They worship the goddess as a god and say that the statue of the goddess is extremely efficacious."
"Effective? What did they ask the goddess for?" Gu Qiancheng asked curiously.
"Others don't know, but seven of me know that their husbands' concubines were mummified." Qin Jiyan kept looking at Gu Qiancheng when he spoke. Seeing that Gu Qiancheng was not surprised at all, he said, "You
Have you guessed it a long time ago?"
Gu Qiancheng didn't hide anything and nodded, "I guessed it." Mummies will not appear in the Goddess Temple for no reason, there is always a reason.
"It seems that the other mummies are also related to this little goddess statue." Gu Qiancheng put down the goddess statue and sat down opposite Qin Jiyan. "Where did this little goddess statue come from?"
"An official from the Ministry of Punishments stole it from his uncle's mother-in-law. It is said that her mother-in-law would put incense on the little goddess statue every first and fifteenth day of the lunar month. Coincidentally, more than twenty years ago, his uncle's mother-in-law also lost a child.
A beloved concubine, she said she ran away with someone." Qin Jiyan tapped the table with a hint of ridicule.
"Killing the concubine on behalf of the main wife, the goddess has really benefited people." Gu Qiancheng also smiled sarcastically, "It seems that the identities of the other corpses are not difficult to find out."
"No, it's difficult." Qin Jiyan stretched out his finger and waved it at Gu Qiancheng, "In the past fifty years in the capital, nearly a thousand concubines were smuggled from house to house. In thirty years, there were four to five hundred concubines.
Tongfang has disappeared. In fact, in the past ten years, more than two hundred concubines have disappeared from Tongfang.”
There were only a dozen mummies in the Goddess Temple, which was disproportionate to these numbers.
"What about the people in the capital who believe in goddesses?" Gu Qiancheng asked another key question, and the answer he got was even more confusing.
"There are thousands if not tens of thousands." After Qin Jiyan reported this number, Gu Qiancheng completely stopped talking.
In the era of big data, it is very convenient to check the population, but in this era where everything is done manually and people are not reported to the government when they die, searching for missing persons is really an extremely huge workload.
Gu Qiancheng sighed, closed his eyes and said, "Two days later, I will go to the Goddess Temple to conduct an autopsy." He hoped to find some clues.
"Yes." Qin Jiyan didn't stop him. Thinking that he had something to do at home at night, he stood up and said, "It's getting late, I'll take you back."
Gu Qiancheng wanted to refuse, but when he looked into Qin Jiyan's deep and determined eyes, he couldn't say no.
After everything is over, it is easy to arouse suspicion. Gu Qiancheng doesn't want Qin Jiyan to know her thoughts...