Dahei landed in a deserted dense forest. After the two jumped off the back of the bird, Qu Weiyang stretched out his hand towards Dahei. The raptor, which was more than one foot tall, suddenly narrowed its eyes, and its wings shook and became the size of a palm.
fell on Qu Weiyang's shoulders.
At that time, he used his head to rub Qu Weiyang's neck affectionately. The look of a real little bird making it difficult for Li Shizi to associate it with the raptor just now.
However, Prince Li quickly retracted his gaze, looked up at Chengguo not far away and said: "The file says that the body was found in a dense forest five miles away from Luxicheng. It should be nearby, let's look for it.
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Of course, Qu Weiyang understood that Li Danqing intended to change the topic just now. She did not point out the topic, but nodded obediently and responded crisply: "Yes."
The two searched for the location in the file, and soon found a place in the forest where several iron wires had been pulled up, and there were several blood stains on the ground. The seals of the Demon Suppression Division were hung on the iron wires.
Apparently this is where the thief's body was found.
"There is no one guarding such an important scene?" Qu Weiyang frowned at that time, crossed the iron wire, and came to the area where the fight took place. He looked at the dried blood on the ground and the obvious signs of being cut open by blades.
Qu Weiyang was somewhat dissatisfied with the broken wood.
Li Danqing shrugged his shoulders. The Demon-Suppressing Secretary and Ying Xiangjun wore the same pants. Of course they wished that this matter could be settled. This approach was not unusual.
"Your Majesty has ordered that the case be solved within seven days. Aren't you afraid of offending Your Majesty, Prime Minister Ying?" Seeing Li Danqing's appearance, Qu Weiyang guessed what was going on, and she couldn't help but murmured a little strangely.
At that time, Li Danqing glanced sideways at the other party and said with a smile: "So what if it doesn't work? Ji Qi can only punish him for dereliction of duty, but he can't be beheaded, right?"
"Imperial power is certainly formidable, but it is not necessarily everything."
After hearing this, Qu Weiyang nodded thoughtfully, then stopped talking and looked around with deep eyes.
But apart from the blood stains on the ground and the broken trees around, Qu Weiyang didn't find anything suspicious. She couldn't help but feel a little disappointed. But when she raised her head and looked at Li Danqing, she saw Li Danqing squatting on the iron wire.
The edge looks into the distance.
Qu Weiyang's heart moved and she stepped forward: "Did you find anything?"
Li Danqing pulled up the iron wire, pointed to the distance, and asked: "What do you think that is?"
Qu Weiyang was stunned and looked up. Through the gap in the forest, he saw a straight official road not far away, about ten feet away from here.
"What do you mean?" Qu Weiyang asked.
Li Danqing said nothing but walked along the gap in the forest to the official road.
Qu Weiyang hurriedly followed, feeling a little displeased with Li Danqing's pretentious appearance.
Li Shizi frowned and stood on the official road looking towards the city in the distance. Qu Weiyang finally couldn't hold it in any longer and asked at that time: "What did you find?"
Li Danqing pointed to the distance and said: "If it were you, starting from Lu Xicheng and going to Matsei City, why would you go into the dense forest on the side if you can't take such a straight official road?"
Li Danqing's words woke up the dreamer.
Qu Weiyang's expression changed and she looked towards the dense forest. She pondered for a while and asked, "Could it be that they were ambushed while resting in the forest?"
"This place is only five miles away from Lu Xicheng. They reported at the post house before. They obviously set out after repairs. There is no reason to need to rest after walking only five miles." Li Danqing broke Qu Weiyang's conjecture.
"Then if the attack happened on the official road, would it be possible that they fought all the way into the dense forest?" Qu Weiyang asked again.
"But there are only traces of the big fight in the forest. If most of them happened,
On the official road, and then fought all the way to that place, there should be traces of fighting in the forest on this path. But the fact is, except for that place, the trees in this dense forest are all intact." Li Danqing shook his head again.
"Then what do you mean..." Qu Weiyang asked.
Li Danqing pondered for a while, and then said quietly: "Either the other party used something to attract them to the bamboo forest, or the bamboo forest was actually a suspicion array set up by that group of people to deliberately confuse our hearing."
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In a teahouse in Luxicheng.
Li Danqing and Qu Weiyang were sitting opposite each other drinking tea.
They quickly found the scene of the fight on the official road. It was not a complicated matter. Although the blood stains on the ground were covered up, the passing of carriages and pedestrians over the past few days still caused some blood stains to emerge. Following the clues, Li Danqing was very surprised.
The boundary was soon found.
However, apart from a few bloodstains that were covered up in the place, there were no other notable clues.
The two of them couldn't figure it out for a while, so they simply returned to Luxicheng, thinking if they could gain anything in the city and sort out their thoughts.
"If most of them happened on official roads, then since they had time to fake a fight scene, why didn't they take the body away with them instead of leaving it there?" Qu Weiyang took a sip of tea and asked for a porcelain from the shop.
He poured a bowl of water into the bowl and put it aside. At this moment, the big black bird landed on the table, lowered his head and drank the water in the bowl.
Li Danqing glanced at Dahei and thought to himself, this guy can become so huge that a bowl of water may not be enough to drink. According to its true size, a cow can eat it.
First came the scene of a palm-sized sparrow swallowing a cow in one gulp. Prince Li's heart moved, and he secretly felt that this scene seemed familiar.
However, he was not in the mood to go into details at this moment. Instead, he pondered: "Those thieves should know very well that the companions left behind have green ghost tattoos. Aren't they afraid of a thorough investigation by the court?"
Qu Weiyang also frowned when he heard this: "Is it true that as Ying Xiangjun said, this case has nothing to do with the Green Ghost Case? The tattoo on the thief is their purpose to create suspicion and deliberately divert our attention.
To the green ghost case?"
Li Danqing shook his head solemnly: "The green ghost tattoo was obviously not tattooed today. There are already wrinkles and deformations in some places, which are caused by changes in the man's body shape, so this tattoo has been on his body for a long time.
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"If the other party is deliberately leading this case to the Green Ghost Case, unless he started planning it a few years ago, or he has already found such a person and is ready to use him as a scapegoat, but the wounds on his body are obviously those of Qi Longshan
Injured by his martial arts, even if the other party knows things well, it is impossible for him to be sure that when he intercepts Ning Xiu and the others that day, his companion will definitely be killed by Ning Xiu and the others."
"Could it be that they coerced Ning Xiu and others to kill them?" Qu Weiyang asked again.
Li Danqing frowned. To be fair, Qu Weiyang's guess was not completely impossible, but in this way, things became even more bizarre and confusing. Moreover, Li Danqing had a vague premonition in his heart from the moment he learned about the case...
Qu Weiyang probably also understood that her speculation would cut off the only clues. She pondered for a while and said: "Then if we speculate based on the fact that the other party is really a member of the Green Ghost Demon Sect, they deliberately left the corpse for
Let’s go check them out. This doesn’t seem to make sense, does it?”
"And if they were really going to do this, why would they fake the scene?"
Hearing this, Li Danqing reached out and picked up the tea cup in front of him and took a sip, thinking silently.
The Qinggui case involves Xia Xianyin and Qingzhu, and they are probably the only two people in the entire Wuyang Dynasty who are keen on this case.
Mo Qingqiu
They are disciples of Qilongshan. Xue Yun and Ning Xiu are my disciples. They were kidnapped instead of killed...
Li Danqing's heart trembled when he thought of this. He raised his head and looked at Qu Weiyang with bright eyes.
Qu Weiyang was startled by Li Danqing's sudden sharp gaze and asked, "What's wrong?"
"If...I mean if."
"They don't want the court to find them, but they want to attract someone's attention, or even let someone find them?" Li Danqing said in a deep voice.
"Who? Who do they want to lure out?" Qu Weiyang asked.
Li Danqing's face darkened, and at that moment a cold word came out of his mouth: "Me."
"You?" Qu Weiyang had a strange look on his face: "Why you?"
"I don't know." Li Danqing shook his head. "But I have a hunch that they seem to know me very well and the people around me. Their style of doing things seems to know that I will definitely participate in it and will definitely participate in it."
I will try my best to find them..."
"How can I find it?"
"If they want me to find them, they will definitely leave some clues, but what?"
Li Danqing was in a daze and began to mutter to himself.
Qu Weiyang had never seen Li Danqing like this before, and she didn't know how to respond to him for a moment, so she could only look at him blankly.
"Three green ghost cases."
"One happened in Baihe Village, one happened in the mountains near Baihe Village, and one happened in Luxicheng."
"Baihe Village is less than a hundred miles away from Lu Xicheng. Does this mean that the remnants of the Qinggui Demon Sect have been hiding in this area? However, the court has launched several manhunts over the years. But since Xia Qian's death, Qinggui Demon Sect has been hiding in this area.
The Demon Sect disappeared as if it had evaporated from the world."
"If they have not disappeared, the only explanation is that they are hiding in this area with some identity that cannot be suspected..."
Qu Weiyang frowned when he heard this and said: "This is impossible."
"Why?" Li Danqing raised his head and asked.
"Because of the Green Ghost case, the imperial court has always been strict in reviewing Tianqi County. In the early years, Shenhesi and Zhenmo jointly investigated the residents in this area. None of them had Green Ghost tattoos on their bodies, unless the Blue Ghost Demon Sect was involved.
Not everyone needs that kind of tattoo, otherwise this conclusion would not be valid." Qu Weiyang said.
"And according to the files from that year, the Green Ghost Demon Sect had nearly ten thousand disciples at its peak. With such a large number, it is absolutely impossible for them to hide under the eyes of the imperial court for so many years."
When Li Danqing heard this, he frowned again.
"If there were nearly 10,000 people in the Green Ghost Demon Sect at its peak, it would be unlikely that they would be hiding in Tianqi County."
"Or maybe they have clever hiding methods..."
"But what kind of method can hide the traces of ten thousand people for nearly ten years..."
Li Danqing thought this, and his brows furrowed deeper and deeper. He felt that he seemed to have touched the answer, but he still could not grasp the most important joint.
Qu Weiyang frowned. She felt that Li Danqing seemed to have entered a dead end. She said, "People from the Qinggui Devil Sect are not fools. How can they stay in Tianqi County?"
"They have disappeared for so many years, and the court can't find any trace of them. Unless they can hide in another world, they can't be without a trace, right?"
"another world!"
Li Danqing's eyes lit up. He thought of the weird experiences he had in Sihai City, and his body suddenly stood up.