The queen must start from the head

Chapter 106
On the outskirts of the imperial city, under the bleak sky at the end of winter, there were several deserted villages scattered across it.

At the entrance of a village, in the light morning mist, three slender figures walked out from behind, namely Qiu Qianxue, Zhou Jingshuang and Yue Yin wearing men's robes.

Stepping on the dark and frozen soil under his feet, Yue Yin moved the tip of his nose, "This Zhuangzi was the first to be slaughtered. The village massacre happened on October 28 last year, and today is January [-]. More than three months have passed. The smell of blood is still on the ground."

Qiu Qianxue took a few steps forward and looked around at the deserted village.

The corpses of all the people who were killed in the village have been brought to the Imperial City Division for unified placement. Now it is an empty village.

Zhou Jingshuang walked into the village. She looked while walking, comparing her memories of living in Heshui Village before, trying to find some clues here.

Finally, she stopped by a well at the end of the village.

This well is not very deep. If one leans out from the edge of the well, one can see the clear water below that reflects the silhouette of people.

Qiu Qianxue saw Zhou Jingshuang stopping by the well, and she also came over. Seeing the latter holding his chin in deep thought, she couldn't help but ask, "How is it? Did you find anything?"

Yue Yin also followed, her eyes stopped on the edge of the clean well, and then her eyes moved, and she looked down at the calm well water below.

"The bucket and the rope used to fetch the water are gone."

"There's something in this well."

Zhou Jingshuang and Yue Yin spoke almost in unison.After the two looked at each other, they couldn't help laughing at each other.

Qiu Qianxue's tense expression relaxed slightly.You must know that this is the first thing the head entrusts her to do, and she doesn't want to leave empty-handed.

Previously, the three of them had made secret investigations in the imperial city for several days, but found nothing, and now they finally found something.

She untied the saber from her waist, handed it to Yue Yin and said, "Hold it for me, I'll go down and have a look."

Yue Yin took her sword, weighed it in his hand a few times, and said, "Then you have to come back early, otherwise such a good sword will have to change its owner."

"Don't worry, I won't give you this chance."

After Qiu Qianxue said this, she adjusted her robes, grabbed a long rope that Zhou Jingshuang found, and jumped directly from the narrow mouth of the well.

The two people gathered around the mouth of the well saw the water below "pop", and Qiu Qianxue's figure also dived down.

Time passed by every minute and every second, and there was a deathly silence in the whole village.

As if to break the silence, Zhou Jing said in both voices, "We were investigating the case of Tu Village in the imperial city a few days ago. Although we acted cautiously, those who are interested should still be able to find that we are investigating these matters."

"So what if we find out?" Yue Yin held Qiu Qianxue's sword to her chest disapprovingly and said, "The people from the Imperial City Department, the Prison Department and the Criminal Department have been busy for more than three months, and they don't even know whether the murderer is a man or a woman. Find out. If we can find out something during our trip, we might be able to help them a lot."

While the two were talking, the rope that Zhou Jingshuang was holding in her hands suddenly moved, and immediately felt that there was something heavy attached to the end of the rope.She quickly called Yue Yin, but the two of them didn't dare to use their strength, for fear that the rope would break, so they had to pull the person below down little by little.

As soon as the two of them raised the rope to the mouth of the well, a smell of corpses suddenly hit their faces.

With a pale face, Qiu Qianxue threw a white and swollen female corpse out of the well, then jumped up and steamed all her clothes dry with internal force, but her face was still very ugly.

"Tsk, tsk, I'm just telling you why you smell a strange smell in the well. It turns out there is someone inside." Yue Yin gestured and fanned in front of her nose, then surrounded the female corpse and began to check it with a tsk-tsk sound.

At this moment, Zhou Jingshuang suppressed the feeling of vomiting in her heart and turned her face away from the female corpse's face that was swollen beyond recognition.

She asked, "How is it? Did you find anything?"

Yueyin didn't make a sound, and Qiu Qianxue on the other side said, "She was wrapped in heavy stones on her feet, and then fell into the bottom of the well and was drowned alive. I feel that she didn't commit suicide by jumping into the well, but was drowned. coerced."

"Oh?" Yue Yin became interested. She looked at the deep strangle marks on the ankles of the female corpse, nodded and said, "It is indeed very likely that someone tied a rope tied with stones to the feet and pushed them into the body. Death in the well. If you can't think of jumping into the well, why bother?"

Although Zhou Jingshuang didn't look at the female corpse, she had been listening to the conversation between the two. Hearing this, she quickly asked a question, "Then why is this woman in the well? Who forced her to jump into the well? Why did the other party force her?" Jumping into a well?"

After hearing this, Yue Yin and Qiu Qianxue looked at each other, and were about to express their respective guesses, when the sound of horseshoes suddenly came from the entrance of the village.

The three of them looked towards the source of the sound, and saw two officials in purple and black official robes driving their horses towards here, with nearly a hundred black armored soldiers behind them.

The two officials had received a report that someone of unknown origin had approached the scene of the murder in Xiaohe Village, so they rushed over to check it out.Now that they were in front of them, they naturally saw the soaked white female corpse by the well at a glance, and the two of them immediately guessed that this female corpse must be related to the case.

One of them immediately took out his official talisman, and shouted at Qiu Qianxue and the other three, "The warden handles the case! Who are you waiting for?"

Yue Yin sneered and said, "The Warden is handling the case? What a powerful official!"

Hearing this sneer, the two officials of the prison department showed embarrassment and anger, and the other stepped forward and said, "This village is the scene of a murder, and the three of you who have unknown origins staying here are even more so." Get out an unnamed female corpse. As a prison officer, I am in charge of monitoring, and today I will arrest you and interrogate you!"

The speaker's companion also nodded repeatedly, "That's right, we suspect that you are related to the village extermination case in Xiaohe Village. Put down your weapons and come with us!"

Looking at the two people singing together, Yue Yin couldn't help showing a sneer on his face, "Walk with you? I'm afraid that if we go, the name of the murderer who slaughtered the village will fall on us, right?"

"Bold! How dare you slander the court officials!" The one who stood up to speak was a small leader of the Black Armored Army. Seeing that the two adults of the warden had already spoken, he stepped forward and prepared to have the three in front of him taken away. Down.

Yue Yin didn't hide the sarcasm on her face, she said coldly, "Grandma, keep your eyes wide open, did my aunt take it as soon as you said it?!"

As soon as she finished speaking, she shattered the outer robe on her body, revealing the lotus root white double-breasted skirt with the logo of the Wushuang School inside.

Seeing this, the two officials of the warden department and the group of black armor soldiers around them subconsciously took a few steps back.

There is no other reason, the reputation of the Wushuang faction in the entire Northern Qi Kingdom has already been established, and because it is located in the western suburbs of the imperial city, its influence in the imperial city is even more powerful.Coupled with the strict rules of the Tianxia Wushuang sect, the disciples of the sect almost never do evil, but they like to be brave and help each other. Therefore, when many forces in the imperial city encounter this family, most of them will automatically avoid it.

The two Warden Department officials couldn't help but look a little shy after realizing that they were retreating.If we follow common sense, we should retreat next, but right now, three major cases of annihilation of villages are still hanging over the heads of the Warden Department and other agencies, so they cannot retreat so easily.

It has to be said that what Yue Yin said earlier completely hit the minds of the two officials of the warden department.

The case could not be solved, the people panicked, His Majesty was furious, and these people are also having a hard time.The higher-ups have long thought of finding some scapegoats to fool the people and give the higher-ups an explanation, but they have no chance to act.But when the two of them came out today, they found three perfect scapegoats.

Although it's a pity that the other party was born in the Peerless School.But in detail, there was some unhappiness between the warden and the Heijiajun, and that head Mu.

At the scene, the Warden and the Black Armored Army were unwilling to withdraw, and Yue Yin and the others were even more unlikely to be captured without mercy. The two sides began to stalemate.

At this moment, the two warden officials secretly exchanged glances with each other, and one of them was the first to break the silence.

"Girl, do you dare to pretend to be a member of the sect while wearing the uniform of the Wushuang Sect? I suspect that you are pretending to be a member of the Wushuang Sect. I advise you to be obedient..."

Before this person finished speaking, Zhou Jingshuang came forward with big strides. Her robe shook, revealing the Wushuang sect's martial attire inside.

She said calmly, "Since you don't believe her, what about me? I'm Zhou Jingshuang, the core disciple of Sect Master Mu. You must have heard of this name, right?"

The group of people on the opposite side immediately looked at each other in blank dismay.

How much more than they have heard of the name Zhou Jingshuang?

As the first big disciple under Mu Lian's throne, Zhou Jingshuang, a core disciple who is less than 15 years old, has always been regarded by many people as the next successor of Mu's head.Its importance in the Wushuang faction is self-evident.

This time, Zhou Jingshuang stood up and revealed her identity, which made the people opposite them dare not act rashly anymore.

Yue Yin looked at the scene, crossed his arms and said, "Now that everyone has revealed their identities, let's talk about the massacre in Xiaohe Village. What do you two adults think?"

Yue Yin deliberately bit down on the word "adult", which made the two officials of the prison department look embarrassed.

The two of them glanced at Zhou Jingshuang's face and saw that the latter nodded, so they had no choice but to comply with Yue Yin's request. At this time, they didn't know what kind of little witch they had gotten themselves into.

(End of this chapter)