A woman dressed in linen is found in a mass grave on the outskirts of the city.
Suddenly a decapitated corpse appeared in front of her. She rushed over, took out needle and thread from her arms, put the body and head together, and sewed silently.
Tears fell drop by drop, blending into the blood everywhere, Qi Liang, I know there is still injustice in this matter.
Although we have not met each other in this life, I will definitely prove your innocence!
"Ah!" Di Xue woke up covered in sweat.
It’s a dream again. Ever since Di Xue recalled her memories of her previous life as a youth, she would have the same dream every few days, dreaming about mass graves with corpses everywhere, dreaming about the headless Qi Liang... ...
In the past period, she often couldn't sleep completely due to the accumulation of cases, so this dream may not have appeared for a long time.
However, she slept so soundly in the inn on the way to the border city of Soochow. This was so unnatural.
Di Xue stepped off the bed of green silk and blue gauze, opened the door, and the breeze blew a few yellowed and slightly bent leaves into the house. The weather was slightly cold, and it was already late autumn.
After leaving the house, she found a higher pavilion and jumped up. The street was dark, and she was already close to Jiangcheng.
The envoy of the South Vietnam Kingdom was intercepted and killed on the outskirts of Jiangcheng, and then the envoy was separated. However, the strange thing is that the people of the envoy tried their best to save the handsome young man who had met Di Xue outside the palace gate. come out.
Now the people are already in the government office of Jiangcheng.
However, all the other members of the mission were missing. At this time, Di Xue and Chu Ran had to find them.
To put it more bluntly, you want to see people alive and you want to see their corpses when they die.
Suddenly, Di Xue noticed someone walking around in the inn. Thinking of the fact that she was sleeping so soundly, Di Xue felt bad. She quickly turned over and jumped off the roof, then entered the inn through an open window.
The inn was dark at this time, but Di Xue quickly reached outside Chu Ran's room door.
After opening it gently, she found that the room was very quiet, so Di Xue walked lightly to the bed. Just as she was about to wake Chu Ran up, she found that the quilt was empty.
Suddenly, there was a faint sound from behind the curtain beside him, and Di Xue dodged and grabbed the person inside.
Chu Ran made a sound in pain, and Di Xue quickly whispered: "It's me, there seems to be a thief in the inn now, you follow us and we will meet up with the others, avoid it first and then discuss the rest.
Di Xue said and took Chu Ran out of the house, only to find that someone was fighting in the hall on the next floor.
Then Di Xue saw in the dim moonlight that six or seven people were fighting again in the room. After careful identification, she found that three of them were the owner of the inn, his wife and the waiter.
The remaining people were dressed in night clothes and looked like killers.
Several people were fighting equally, but when they saw Di Xue and the others, they rushed over in unison.
Di Xue was so upset that she quickly called out to Zhang Ying and others. The three finally woke up and ran out after hearing the noise outside.
Di Xue fought with the two groups, but as the two groups were consumed by each other, some of them were more or less injured.
So Di Xue swam among them, and gained the upper hand in a few rounds. After a stick of incense, the two groups were either knocked unconscious by Di Xue, or some committed suicide by taking poison when they saw that the task could not be completed.
Di Xue looked around and said to Chu Ran in no particular order:
"There are two groups here. This inn is originally a black shop. They gave us drugs during the day, but they didn't want to kill you. They wanted to blackmail you when they saw you dressed in extraordinary clothes. But the other group They are rushing towards the vital point with their swords, and they seem to be determined to kill you and me. Who sent this group of people?"
"Is it still Li Yong? This is not the first time that he intercepted you and me." Chu Ran said after thinking about it.
Di Xue thought for a moment and shook his head:
"My information is in the hands of His Majesty. At this time, Li Yong is too busy to take care of himself. It is impossible to pursue you and me to such a primitive place and then take action."
"Could it be that there are others who want your life and mine?" Chu Ran said in surprise.
Di Xue nodded, and then returned: "But I don't know what purpose this person has or why he wants to kill you. I can only be careful."
As they spoke, the two of them, along with Zhang Ying Hanshu and Chu Ran's bodyguard Li Jin, tied up the people in the inn.
But another group of people all committed suicide by poisoning Di Xue. There were no special marks on these corpses, but there was a faint fragrance on them, which seemed to be the smell of mugwort.
Everyone has it, but they don't know what it means, just when Di Xue was thinking about it.
Suddenly, a soldier hurried in from outside the inn. He turned a blind eye to the situation inside the house and asked breathlessly:
"Are you Master Di Xuedi of Dali Temple?"
Di Xue nodded and took the lead, and the soldier continued: "Yuan Jing urgently asks you to open it."
Di Xue took the soldier's letter and opened it and found two pieces of news that shocked her.
The first one is that Li Yong realized that he was desperate. After meeting the emperor, he committed suicide at home, thus saving the lives of the rest of the Li family.
However, it is unknown how long the Li family can survive in Soochow without Li Yong's protection.
This piece of news is incidental, the second one behind it is the key point.
Princess Chu Yurao of Qingyang disappeared in Beijing. The emperor originally wanted to restore the princess to her identity according to Di Xue's plan, but he found that the princess was not in Jingyang Palace.
Her personal maid is not here either, and everyone in Jingyang Palace doesn't know the inside story, so they naturally don't care about this commoner who will move out of the palace soon.
So in an instant the princess disappeared without a trace.
However, after the emperor's investigation, he still found out that the princess dressed up as a little yellow gate and left the palace, then used her money to organize a caravan, and took her personal maid to follow the caravan south. The destination turned out to be Jiangcheng.
The emperor has sent elite soldiers and generals to search, but due to the sensitive status of the princess, he cannot search extensively.
This matter also fell on Di Xue and Chu Ran. The emperor's order was to find the princess at all costs.
After reading the letter, Di Xue also had one head and two heads. However, the inn here is the only place to go to Jiangcheng. Maybe the people in the inn know something.
So she returned to the house, looked at the boss and his wife who were tied to the pillar, and signaled Han Shu to wake them up.
After a basin of cold water went down, the two of them woke up and looked at several people with frightened faces:
"Everyone, we are obsessed with money and have absolutely no intention of harming your names. Please bypass us because we are first-time offenders."
The landlady spoke with great emotion and acted pitifully. If others saw her, they would definitely think that Di Xue and others were too inhumane.
However, Di Xue did not accept this trick and instead said:
"We are not green men, but people from the government. We are here on business. What happened in your store is enough to behead you two. However, if you can cooperate with us in investigating the case, it is not that we cannot consider giving you a lighter sentence. .”
In fact, what Di Xue said was partly to scare them, because Di Xue checked the inn and found out that the couple did not take the clerk to kill anyone, otherwise it was not a drug but poison.
So while the two of them nodded like chickens pecking at rice, Di Xue finished drawing the portrait of Princess Qingyang, and then asked:
"Have you two seen a caravan passing through here recently? Is there such a girl in the caravan?"
The landlady looked at the portrait with some hesitation, and suddenly she said:
"I've seen her before, but she's not a young lady, but a thin young master!"
