Chen Xian smiled meaningfully: "Master Han doesn't know something. This lady of the Shen family is not an ordinary young lady. I heard that she was a palace maid who used to be an errand in the palace. When she was old, she was released from the palace to marry. She is more knowledgeable and generous than The ordinary little lady is one step ahead, and the head lady of Mr. Wang passed away a few years ago. He was a county magistrate in Jingyang County before, and he had great political achievements during his tenure. He solved a case of colluding with Tibet and causing trouble in the local area. After three years of performance appraisal, I was rated as above, returned to Beijing to report on my work two years ago, and was promoted to doctor of the Ministry of Rites."
When Han Changmu heard that this king was really from Jingyang County and was serving as the magistrate of Jingyang County, he immediately remembered that Gu Dalang and Li Erniang escaped from Jingyang County, and the county government arrested them for colluding with Tibet. He couldn't help but I felt a shiver in my heart and asked a few more questions: "The magistrate of Jingyang County is from the seventh rank, and the doctor of the Ministry of Rites is from the fifth rank. The promotion of Mr. Wang is really amazing."
Chen Xian smiled even more deeply: "Of course, Mr. Wang's uncle is the supervisor in charge of Ye Ting, and he has the favor of Mr. Song, the Minister of Rites. Naturally, we can't catch up with him in terms of promotion. ”
Han Changmu nodded slightly and understood the key points.
Wang Zhen was the nephew of Yeting, who was in charge of the internal affairs office. Among the people sent to hunt down Gu Dalang, there happened to be people from Yeting, and Song Ying's second son, Song Huaide, was the person involved in the case five years ago. This Wang Zhen happened to be the county magistrate who ordered the arrest of Gu Dalang.
All of this is too much of a coincidence. There is no such coincidence in this world. Most of it is caused by human effort.
He slowly darkened his face, turned his head and glanced at Wang Zhen, who was joking with the Shen family's wife, and made a plan in his mind.
The mud in the pond in Sesel Tower was so frozen that the guards wasted a whole time and only dug a shallow layer.
The sunshine at noon was somewhat warm, shining on the pond, and the mud showed signs of melting.
He Zhenfu stood on the shore with his arms akimbo, looking at the mess in the pond, and called to the many internal guards: "Let's have lunch first, and then dig after the mud has melted."
Yao Yao prepared hot water, and the guards washed the mud on their hands and faces. Each of them picked up a bowl of mutton buns and ate them loudly. Everyone was sweating profusely and white mist filled their heads.
Taking advantage of the good sunshine at noon and the mud melting quickly, the guards quickly finished their lunch, picked up their shovels, jumped into the waist-deep mud, and continued digging.
Mud was flying, and the bank covered with decaying grass was already filled with dark mud.
After digging for a while, the shovel in the hand of one of the guards seemed to have hit something, and it made a muffled "clang" sound. The guard's face changed and he shouted loudly: "Mr. He Qi, there is something, there is something down there. "
He Zhenfu was overjoyed and shouted: "Quick, quick, go to that place and dig."
The inner guards immediately huffed and huffed and gathered from the mud. Some of them walked too fast, staggering and almost falling.
Yao Yao glanced at that place and frowned slightly. Instead of getting closer, he flew up to the ridge of the roof and stood at the highest point to look out at the pond.
The place where the guards gathered was surprisingly in the middle of the pond. She looked around subconsciously. The Sese Building was considered a relatively high position in the West Market. Standing on this roof, she could clearly see the entire West Market.
She stood facing the wind. The bright sun had shifted a little and was no longer hanging in the middle of the sky. However, the line of pale white sunlight was still shining brightly. Thin and dense light dust was flowing in the sunlight, making it very clear. .
Suddenly there was a sound of wind in her ears. She did not look back or even blink her eyes. She just sniffed the tip of her nose and grunted: "You have eaten a lot of mutton in the basin, but we are here smelling the fishy smell of mud."
Han Changmu raised his hand and asked about his sleeves, frowning slightly: "Does the mutton smell so strong?"
Yao Yao raised his eyebrows: "It's not big, it's because my humble position is particularly sensitive to food."
Han Changmu picked up the food box, waved it in front of Yao Yao, and said calmly: "I brought you the water basin mutton from the Shen Family Restaurant, want to try it?"
Yao Yao raised his eyebrows: "Forget it, it's not my style to eat alone."
Han Changmu smiled without forcing anything. He looked in the direction Yao Yao was looking at, frowned slightly, and asked calmly: "What are you looking at?"
Yao Yao narrowed his eyes and said in a somewhat erratic voice: "Sir, look at this West Market and this Chang'an City, don't you think it's strange?"
Han Changmu stood up and looked into the wind. He saw that Chang'an City was dotted with 108 squares, and the eaves and roof ridges were like a tidal wave flowing into the distance.
He turned around on the ridge of the roof, and his clothes were rolled up by the wind, making a soft rustling sound. The high palace walls looked particularly deep in the sun and came into his eyes.
He suddenly whispered: "The location of Sese Tower in Chang'an City is exactly the location of the formation eye in the formation diagram you gave me last night. However, that formation diagram is the formation in Sese Tower. I don't know if it is in Chang'an City. Is there still the same formation?"
Yao Yao sat on the ridge of the roof, looked in the direction of Pingkangfang, and said solemnly: "There is a small formation in the Ruosese Tower, and the entire Chang'an City is a large formation. According to the formation diagram, there should be two formation eyes in total. One of them is the location of Sese Tower, and the other one should be in Pingkangfang, but there are many flower buildings and many mansions in Pingkangfang, so I don’t know where the formation will be."
Han Changmu narrowed his eyes and said calmly: "Then look everywhere."
As they were talking, there were noisy exclamations in the pond, mixed with deep panic. The two of them looked at each other and saw huge ice cubes emerging from the mud, with scattered stars hanging outside the ice cubes. of mud.
The two flew off the roof. He Zhenfu walked over quickly and bowed: "My lord, we dug it out."
Han Changmu walked along the huge wooden plank laid by the inner guard on the mud to the middle of the pond. He saw eighteen more ice cubes there. The mud slid down along the slippery ice cubes, revealing the crystal clear ice cubes wrapped in them. Something to hold on to.
Wisps of cold air linger around the ice. Each ice cube is wrapped in a headless corpse, and these corpses are all in different poses. Although there is no head, the clothes are as neat as new. It was stained with a little bit of blood, and the exposed hands looked very plump and had normal skin color, as if they had just died.
The sunlight shines on the huge ice cubes, refracting strange and colorful lights, shrouding the bodies around them, making them particularly weird and eerie, making people shudder.
The moment these ice cubes were dug out, the inner guards took a few steps back, subconsciously moving away from the ice cubes. They felt that these methods were too crazy, and even the slightest touch of them would damage their moral character.
Han Changmu didn't have so many taboos. He looked around the ice cubes one by one and turned to He Zhenfu and said, "Draw their postures."
He Zhenfu choked and whispered in embarrassment: "Sir, this is a humble job and I can't draw."
Han Changmu pointed at Yao Yao without thinking: "Let her draw."
Yao Yao was stunned, holding the word "why" on his lips. Although he didn't dare to say it out, the word "why" was clearly written on his face, full of indignation.
He Zhenfu came up to him holding the pen and ink, and chuckled: "Yao joins the army. Those who can do more work."
Yao Yao gouged out a look at He Zhenfu, took the purple-tube brush and booklet, and drew carefully according to the corpse in the ice, not daring to miss any detail.
He Zhenfu held the inkstone and followed Yao Yao step by step. He even spoke and breathed very low, only to intimidate her and make her hands tremble.
As he was drawing, Yao Yao's eyebrows furrowed, and his strokes changed from difficult to smooth, and then hesitant again. He raised his eyes and looked at Han Changmu, and said in surprise: "Sir, these postures look like the Eighteenth Form of Tianzhu." Your Majesty."
Han Changmu also saw it and nodded slightly: "Yes, it is said that these eighteen sages can help people no longer suffer the pain of reincarnation, but putting this corpse in such a posture and causing such a big killing, let alone reincarnation, only You’ll have to go to hell.”
Yao Yao bit his lower lip lightly, quite confused.
Han Changmu walked along the ice and suddenly turned around and asked: "The forensic document written by the deceased stated that there were nineteen heads in total, but why were only eighteen bodies dug out and one body hidden in the ice?" where?"
He Zhenfu and Yao Yao looked at each other and shook their heads.
After a few more turns, Yao Yao had drawn all the postures and recorded the position of the ice cubes in the pond.
Han Changmu then ordered the guards to spread a clean white cloth in the courtyard, then take out the ice cubes and place them on the white cloth, and light a fire around them to speed up the melting of the ice cubes so that the corpse could be performed as soon as possible.
Wu Zuo had already received the news and ran to the backyard with the small wooden box on his arm. When he saw the scene in front of him, his scalp went numb, his vision went dark, and he almost fell to the ground.
This is too much, and he will grow old forever.
Han Changmu glanced at Wu Zuo and said calmly: "I will test it with you."
Wu Zuo grinned bitterly, come on, even laziness has become a wishful thinking.
With the fire, the ice melted very quickly, and streams of water flowed to the ground and penetrated into the soil very quickly.
Yao Yao walked to Han Changmu holding the drawn album, pointed the position of the ice cube in the pond, and whispered: "Sir, there is also a formation in this pond."
Han Changmu rubbed his brows in distress.
From the current clues, it seems that the entire Sese Tower has been set up with a formation. The pond is one of the formations, and this formation is also a formation. This is clearly an formation within an formation, and this formation is obviously not the right way. , is the ulterior motives of evil people.
As for the entire city of Chang'an, there was no way to make a rash judgment and formations were deployed. This was so shocking. Once the news came out, whether it was true or false, it would cause panic and confusion among the people.
He turned over the existing clues in his hand and suddenly said: "You and He Zhenfu stay here and watch the autopsy on the corpse. I will go to the palace now."
Yao Yaoying claimed so.
When Wu Zuo heard this, he suddenly raised his head with a desperate expression. They had agreed to do an autopsy together, and Master Han was a big liar.
