Lu Anran finally met the Su Ji mentioned in Yun Qi's words in the back hall of the Criminal Division. As his name suggests, he was a man of extraordinary beauty, with handsome features and elegant demeanor.
It's just that his face is excessively pale, implying a sense of sickness.
Compared with Su Zhi's shock, Su Ji's eyes only stayed on Lu Anran for a moment, and it was more like giving you a polite glance and then sliding his eyes away.
"This is the file I reorganized on this case." Su Ji picked up another one. "This contains the confessions of all the people related to the deceased, including relatives, friends and enemies."
After Su Ji laid out several books in different categories and explained them one by one, Yun Qi affirmed what he had done in two words.
"capable."
The corner of Su Ji's mouth twitched slightly, "If nothing else, I'll go do other things first."
Yun Qi watched Su Ji leave, turned around and received a strange look from Lu Anran, raising his eyebrows to show his doubts.
Lu Anran said sincerely: "Your Majesty, this Sicheng has done a great job." He put his name on the line, but others ran away and broke their legs.
Yunqi's peach blossom eyes showed a smile: "This is just one of the inconspicuous advantages of this prince."
Lu Anran ignored him and buried his head in the pile of copywriting in front of him.
Even when the two were not speaking, they had a tacit understanding. Lu Anran silently flipped through the pages, and Yun Qi occasionally tapped a certain point with his folding fan. The two looked at each other, communicated with their eyes, and then continued reading.
Su Zhi stood close behind the two of them. Because he called Lu Anran a "freak" in front of him, he felt a little guilty and didn't dare to disturb the two of them. He couldn't help but scratch his head and ears.
what happened?
When did Brother Yun meet Freak Lu and become so close?
Su Zhi thought about it and slowly moved his body closer, but Lu Anran raised his hand just in time, so a bloody picture in the scroll almost touched his face.
on purpose!
Naked/naked/naked malice!
Lu Anran gave an incomprehensible look to Su Zhi, who was always making a fuss, and his eyes fell on a very detailed picture of a soul-inducing flag.
"By the way, there's something." Yun Qi sat across from him with his legs crossed, a cup of tea in his hand, blowing the foam on it, and said quietly: "The thief who attacked the Lord of Rongan County has been found."
Lu Anran paused and raised his head from the file.
Yunqi took a sip of tea and sighed: "My name is Wang Shouren. He is from the capital. He joined the army two years ago and went to Jiehai with Gu Chengfeng's group."
Lu Anran could tell from Yun Qi's expression that things were not as simple as he thought, "Could he have returned to the capital?"
"No." Yun Qi put down the tea, "In the Battle of Jihai, all the troops led by Gu Chengfeng were wiped out, and Wang Shouren was also one of them."
Lu Anran was silent.
Pirates are rampant in Jiehai, and the people in several nearby villages are living in dire straits. The people are boiling with resentment. In addition, Jiehai is connected to Ryukyu Island, and there is a small country on the island named Qianchi.
When the dynasty was at its most prosperous, it had strong soldiers and horses, and unified the entire continent in one fell swoop. It even formed a navy to attack the gate of the Qianchi Kingdom's palace.
At that time, the emperor of Qianchi Kingdom raised a white flag and surrendered, and he became a prosperous vassal state from then on.
Later, the dynasty changed several times, and the Qianchi Kingdom also muddied the waters from time to time, but the hozen was no match for the lion. As time went by, it seemed that it had accepted its fate. It offered sacrifices and special products every year and lived on a small island.
However, Zisang Jiuxiu obviously did not relax his vigilance because of this, so when the Jihai incident broke out, he immediately sent troops to suppress it, fearing that the pirates would collude with the Qianchi Kingdom and be attacked from both sides.
This is also one of the reasons why Zisang Jiuxiu has a lot of scruples about the issue of Mengzhou territory.
However, pirates live at sea all year round, are very good at water, and are cunning and cunning. The old commander Wang You was unable to attack them for a long time. Fortunately, Gu Chengfeng used a trick to trap the pirate leader and finally captured them all.
"What? What?" Su Zhi shook his head from side to side, unable to follow the conversation between the two people, "What about the snitch? Why did he join the army again? What happened to Juhai? Aren't all the pirates in Juhai already wiped out? "
Lu Anran closed the case file he had read, "It seems that someone stole Wang Shouren's identity card and attacked the carriage of the Rongan County Lord two years ago. The real Wang Shouren has already died in Juhai."
Su Zhi opened his eyes wide and shook the goosebumps on his body: "Oh, it's weird."
"Jehai and Wangdu are hundreds of miles apart, why is it Wang Shoucheng?" Lu Anran whispered.
Su Zhi spoke enthusiastically: "Didn't you say that Wang Shoucheng is from Wangdu? Could it be that his identity badge was stolen before he went on the expedition?"
Lu Anran: "No."
Yun Qi: "Impossible."
Su Zhi was furious. Did the two of them have too much of a tacit understanding?
Lu Anran explained: "When a sergeant joins the army, he needs to check his identity, and his household registration background is also indispensable. If he loses it at that time, he will definitely find it and go to the government to record it and get a new one."
Yun Di nodded and said, "I asked someone to go to Jingzhao Mansion to check, but there is no record of Wang Shouren's case."
Su Zhi scratched his head: "This... is a bit complicated."
"The Pojiao vendor who had a dispute with Juntao, and Wang Shouren, how coincidentally, their identities were stolen." Lu Anran raised his head suddenly, "Could it be..."
Yunqi immediately understood and called out: "Watch the moon."
Su Zhi looked confused: "..."
What's going on, what's going on, what's happening again?
He was in it and seemed to be outside it.
Guanyue arrived shortly after being summoned, and Yun Qi explained: "Send someone to check if anyone in the royal capital has lost their identity tags. Also check the documents in Jingzhao Mansion to find out who has lost their identity tags in the past one or two years." Calculate."
The two sat down again, and Su Zhi breathed a sigh of relief, put on a smile, and was about to laugh when he heard Lu Anran say: "There is a problem here."
Su Zhi's nerves became inexplicably tense.
The place Lu Anran was pointing to was one of the paintings of soul-inducing flags.
Because the scene cannot be preserved forever, the Criminal Division has specialized painters to draw the important contents and summarize them in the case file.
The paintings of the case are not beautiful in terms of technique, but they must be restored.
Just like the painting in Lu Anran's hand, under the hazy sky, a pale soul-inducing flag flutters in the wind. The ink-black characters on it are twisted into strange symbols and lines. The sadness of white and white, the gloomy of black and black, blow in the face. A breath of death.
Yunqi looked at it for a while and asked, "What's the difference?"
Lu Anran pulled out several other paintings, compared them and explained: "The charms on the soul-inducing flags are all very specific. After seeing the scene in the back mountain of Jixia Palace before, I felt something was wrong, and I was not specialized in this. So I didn’t tell you until I went to Wenlan Tower to read "Historical Records of Ten Directions"."
As the name suggests, "Historical Records of Ten Directions" records all the seemingly unreasonable things in the world, such as strange beasts in the mountains and seas, monsters and monsters, as well as subjugating demons and demons, and Taoist curses.
"The talisman originated from Taoism, and Taoism teaches that Taoism is natural." Lu Anran pointed to the talisman on the soul-guiding flag and said: "Tao grows all things, but they are born without being. .”
Su Zhi plucked his ears. He couldn't figure out how to properly start preaching the Dharma.
Yun Qi's eyes were thoughtful: "You are saying that it seems messy and has no rules, but it follows nature, which is also a rule."
Faced with such a tacit understanding, Lu Anran's eyes lit up when he raised his head, "People who are not familiar with this art usually have a hard time distinguishing the difference, but with just a few wrong strokes of this spell, the meaning will be completely different."
Yun Qi raised an eyebrow when he met her starry eyes, then raised the corners of his mouth, and pointed his finger on the painting, "Here, here, and the bottom few places are different."
Su Zhi squeezed over and compared the several pictures one by one in detail, and suddenly said: "Ah, yes, yes, these pictures are the same, but this one is different from the others."
The only different painting comes from the last case, which is Subaru's death.
"In the previous cases, including the scene of Jun Tao's death, the drawings of the soul-drawing flags were all correct, but this one is about exorcism." Lu Anran said, her brows couldn't help but lower, "That's not true either. .”
Even if Yun Qi dabbles in a lot of knowledge, it is difficult for him to understand ghosts and strange stories, so he asked shamelessly: "How do you say it?"
Lu Anran's eyes stopped somewhere and thought: "The seduction is to attract the soul, the dispersion is to exorcise the demon, but the last touch of it is not right."
Yun Qi and Su Zhi both looked at Lu Anran, waiting for her next words.
"When the yin and yang meet at midnight, the yin door opens, and ghosts lead the way, gathering the earth's energy and condensing the soul."
Su Zhi was confused and said in a daze: "What do you mean?"
Lu Anran shook his head: "To put it simply, they don't look alike."
Yun Qi's dark eyes seemed to be filled with mist, and his smile faded, "I almost got fooled."
Su Zhi: "Who? The murderer?"
Yun Qi used the lid of the cup to brush away the tea foam and sighed: "There are people who are looking like fish, trying to kill people and put blame on them."
Su Zhi grinned: "Because of a few wrong strokes? Maybe the murderer was too panicked, that's possible."
Lu Anran's eyes changed: "Absolutely impossible. When the Shangyuan Festival was so tightly guarded, the murderer was still able to arrange everything at the scene in an orderly manner. This shows that he is a calm and strategic person, and he even calculated the fate of the guards. Change the time."
Yun Qi held the tea bowl in his palm, narrowed his peach blossom eyes and said, "Our previous guess was wrong."
Before, they thought that something happened to the murderer that would lead to many violations, but now it seems...
"The murderer didn't mind the trouble and insisted on putting on this array. I think maybe it wasn't to be mysterious or scary, but to perform some kind of ritual, so he would never make any mistakes in the ritual."
The wrong depiction of the soul-inducing flag directly led to the failure of the ritual. The murderer would not let himself make this mistake.
Lu Anran suddenly thought of something and looked up at Yun Qi. "Based on the previous four cases, the murderer's murder techniques are sophisticated and cruel. He didn't hesitate at all when he started. I'm afraid..."
Yun Qi answered: "Are you afraid that someone will imitate him and commit a crime, which will make the murderer unhappy? Maybe there will be a new case soon?"
Lu Anran looked slightly stern: "A murder like this is neither for money nor revenge, which shows that the murderer is a person with a very unique personality. Although we currently cannot know the murderer's purpose, he will not allow others to imitate him."
Yun Qi picked up the jade bone fan and tapped the palm of his left hand, "Have you discovered the common points between these cases?"
