Early in the morning, the sun rises.
Youzhou City, which had been silent all night, gradually woke up, but before people could completely break out of their sleep, a shrill scream suddenly came from the street.
People went out to check, and then they saw two dead bodies on the long street, lying in the middle of the road.
Youzhou Prefectural Government quickly received the news.
Not long after, Ling Yuntian arrived with Han Wuzuo and a large number of police officers and sealed off the scene.
As soon as they arrived at the scene, they discovered the butterfly embroidered handkerchief left not far from the two bodies.
"This is……"
Ling Yuntian looked at the embroidered handkerchief in his hand and pondered slightly, then his eyes suddenly flashed!
He said to a policeman beside him: "Go to Guanyi immediately and inform the imperial envoy that Huadie has taken action again!"
The detective nodded and left as ordered.
However, they had no idea at this time that there was also a body discovered in the alley of Yihongyuan, about two streets away from here.
…
Chen Yutian got up later than usual today.
Last night, in order to investigate the whereabouts of Liu Jingyan's hair boy, they visited almost half of the gambling houses in the city, but unfortunately, there was still no information about this person. This person seemed to have disappeared from the world.
The three of them returned to Guanyi to rest around the time of Chou, so when Chen Yutian woke up this morning, it was already past Chen hour.
After a leisurely breakfast, he was about to go to Hakka Village with Gongsun and the others to investigate, but suddenly received news from Ling Yuntian's entrustment.
"What? Huadie did it again?"
After hearing the messenger's message, almost everyone in Jiulong Mansion was shocked. Chen Yutian pondered for a moment and asked, "Your family should be at the scene now, right?"
"Your Majesty, that's right."
"In that case, I have to trouble you to take us there." With that said, Chen Yutian stood up.
Everyone else also stood up and prepared to set off.
"In that case. Then please come along with me, adults."
Under the leadership of the police, everyone in Jiulong Mansion came to the scene of the murder except Xuan Xi, who was in seclusion.
At this time, the state government's preliminary investigation of the scene had basically ended, and Ling Yuntian and Fang Jing were questioning several people dressed as civilians.
Everyone in Jiulong Mansion did not say hello to him, but went straight to Han Wuzuo's body.
"Mr. Han, you are fine."
"It turns out to be the Imperial Envoy."
The two parties exchanged a few words, and Chen Yutian said directly: "Can you let me see the deceased?"
"Of course." Han Wuzuo smiled slightly, and then ordered the government servants who stayed behind to lift the white cloth covering the body.
And the moment the white cloth was lifted and the face of the deceased was clearly seen, Gongsun, Bai Fan, and Xue Tianhan suddenly changed their expressions as if they had been struck by a bolt from the blue!
"I didn't expect that the deceased this time... turned out to be... them..."
Gongsun was surprised and sighed slightly.
Chen Yutian was puzzled and looked at the two corpses.
At that time, there were two ordinary-looking male corpses, one looked about fifty, and the other was younger, about twenty-five or six.
There was only one wound on the body from head to toe, which was the thin, slightly black line-like wound on the neck.
Such wounds were also found on the bodies of Li Ren and Yang Kuo.
Seeing this, Chen Yutian's eyes flashed.
The cause and manner of death of the deceased were similar to those of Li Ren and Yang Kuo. It seemed that Hua Die was also responsible for the crime this time.
but……
Chen Yutian looked at the corpses and asked Gongsun, "Gongsun, do you know these two deceased people?"
Gongsun nodded, "To be honest with you, sir, we do know these two people. They are Lin Ming, the shopkeeper of Kexiangju, whom we originally planned to investigate, and Wang Yun, the waiter."
"What, it's them?" Chen Yutian was shocked.
At this moment, a yamen servant ran over panting and reported to Ling Yuntian: "Report——Sir, it's bad, another body was found!"
"What?" Ling Yuntian and everyone present were shocked when they heard it!
In just one morning, three bodies were discovered. What on earth is going on? Ling Yuntian felt like he was about to faint.
"Where is the scene?" he asked.
"It is said that it is in the alley near Yihongyuan. Li Tou has already led his brothers there first."
After listening to the yamen's report, Ling Yuntian couldn't help but rub his eyebrows.
Chen Yutian saw his difficulty and said, "Master Ling, you can stay here. Just ask me to wait there."
Hearing this, Ling Yuntian's eyes flashed, but he said with a troubled expression: "Why...why do I have the nerve to bother you, the Imperial Envoy?"
Chen Yutian waved his hand and said, "It doesn't matter. His Majesty wants us to go on patrol anyway, so Lord Ling doesn't have to be polite. Of course, we will also leave some people here. If Lord Ling needs help, please feel free to ask for help." They just say it.”
Having said that, Ling Yuntian was not allowed to reply. He took Gongsun and Huo Yuanji directly to the crime scene in Yihongyuan under the guidance of the officer.
Lin Dao, Xue Tianhan, Ling Miaoyin, Tang Fengling, Lin Tao, and Wu Dongtian were left at the scene.
At this time, Lin Tao stood behind his father, looking around lazily.
Suddenly, his eyes stopped at the crowded crowd not far away. There, there is a small familiar figure looking over here.
"It's her? Han Tong?" Lin Tao was secretly happy.
…
Chen Yutian, Gongsun, and Huo Yuanji, led by the government officials, quickly arrived at the crime scene.
As reported by the government officials, the scene of the crime happened to be in the alley adjacent to Yihongyuan. At this moment, the place has been blocked by the government and no one is allowed to get even half a step closer.
But even so, the entrance to the alley was still crowded with spectators and passers-by.
Four people squeezed through the crowd and entered the scene.
After explaining to the head catcher who cordoned off the scene, the three met the deceased this time.
He was a young man of about twenty-seven or twenty-seven years old, with a deer head, rat eyes, and a sharp mouth and monkey cheeks. He was wearing a gray gown that looked very old. A pair of triangular eyes that were not too big were wide open, as if he had seen something extremely terrifying before his death.
There was only one fatal wound on his body that was exactly the same as Li Ren's.
Moreover, around his corpse, there was also a white embroidered handkerchief embroidered with blood-colored butterflies!
Obviously, this is also what the flowers and butterflies do.
Gongsun knelt down and looked at the body carefully. Chen Yutian stood up and asked the head catcher, "Do you know the name of the deceased? Where does he live?"
"Sir, after all our inquiries, we have determined that the deceased's name is Liu Dahai, nicknamed Big Mouth Liu, and he was a watchman."
"What?" After hearing this, both Chen Yutian, Gongsun who was doing the autopsy, and Huo Yuanji were all extremely surprised! !
The dead person in front of me is Big Mouth Liu?
The kid who works with Liu Jingyan?
He was also killed!
Chen Yutian frowned slightly, touched his chin and pondered.
This matter is very wrong!
Yesterday, they said they were going to investigate Kexiangju, but today, the only two suspicious people in Kexiangju were killed by Huadie.
Originally, they wanted to find Big Mouth Liu to learn more about Liu Jingyan's whereabouts after midnight and before midnight on the night of the incident. But now, he was also killed by Huadie.
This is not quite right! !
It always felt like this butterfly was deliberately hindering them from continuing their investigation.
But why?
Leaving aside the murders of Li Ren and others, the murder of Bai Xiuxiu seems to have nothing to do with Huadie.
But why did he kill Big Mouth Liu and obstruct the investigation?
"Could it be..."
Chen Yutian's eyes suddenly flashed with lightning-like brilliance. At this moment, he had a guess in his heart.
"Based on the stiffness of the deceased's body, the time of death should not exceed six hours, that is, the period from last night's Hai hour to this morning's Chen hour. The cause of death was also the poison of Wuying San, but the poisoning did not cause death. It’s twelve hours, so the fingertips haven’t turned black yet.”
After a preliminary autopsy, Gongsun came over.
"Moreover, judging from the condition of the body, he should have drank a lot of alcohol before death." Huo Yuanji touched his nose and said with a smile.
"It seems that is indeed the case." Gongsun nodded, "As for other information, I'm afraid I won't know until I do further testing."
"Well, I understand."
Chen Yutian was silent for a moment and then slowly spoke.
"However, I finally know why you couldn't find this guy after searching for so long last night." Huo Yuanji suddenly laughed, "It seems that this guy has never been to a gambling house after receiving the hush money. But I came here to have fun. No wonder you can't find it."
When they heard the word "hush money", Chen Yutian and Gongsun were shocked almost at the same time!
"What did you say? Hush money?"
"That's right!"
Huo Yuanji smiled slightly, then raised his right hand and pointed to a certain place on the paper in his hand with his left hand.
Gongsun took the paper in his hand, which was exactly the other list found in Hua Butterfly's purse excluding the death list.
The two of them looked along where Huo Yuanji was pointing, and sure enough they saw Liu Dahai's name written in black and white on it.
It turns out that Liu Dahai was also living in a foreign country on the fifth day of February.
Similarly, he is also one of those people who, according to everyone's reasoning, could have avoided death by accepting the hush money.
Seeing this, Chen Yutian couldn't help but have a glimmer of doubt in his eyes.
"Could it be a coincidence?"
He looked at the list in his hand and fell into thought again.
