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Chapter 467 The Corpse in the Tree

"If you don't ask, don't ask, why are you so fierce. Hmph, good men don't fight with women!"

Recalling the sourness of pointing the acupoint just now, the young man shut his mouth sullenly, holding back his anger.

"Miss Xiao Jin, don't be surprised. Thanks to him catching the mouse from the house, it came in handy at a critical moment."

Qilan stepped in calmly to make a rescue, and helped Chen Xing, who looked unhappy, to stand aside, so as not to make her angry again.

Xiao Jin felt inexplicably anxious, and tears welled up in his eyes.

She ran alone behind the big tree on the side of the road, and was about to cry, but found two feet wearing black cloth shoes hanging vertically above the top of the tree. She was so scared that she took a step back and shouted:
"My God! Someone hanged himself from a tree!"

Zhang Wenxuan was the closest, and when he heard the shout, he hurriedly called the two teenagers to come over to see what happened.

As expected of a student majoring in archeology, Chen Xing was used to seeing coffins and ancient tombs.No shyness about corpses hanging high in trees.

He picked up a thick dead branch on the ground first, and poked it boldly.

"It didn't take long to die. It's almost stiff. It's not a hanged ghost, so there's nothing to be afraid of."

Qilan came over to take a closer look, and suddenly something soft stuck to the sole of the shoe.

Lift your feet and use a branch to pull out a small squashed "round cake" from the pile of dry grass and dead leaves.

The "round cake" is filled with a layer of fragrant cream in the middle.

He looked at it a little familiarly, and turned his head uncertainly:

"Brother Zhang, come over and take a look, where have you seen this cake before?"

Although he lost his glasses and could see vaguely, Zhang Wenxuan guessed its origin by relying on the memory in his sense of smell.

"Dim sum from Huaxia Hotel! I have eaten the 'sweetheart cake' many times. Can't go wrong."

His voice gradually choked up, and he couldn't help but think of Yue Xian.

In those happy days, she always brought milk and all kinds of delicious food to the hospital for breakfast.

But, how did the sweetheart cake appear in such a place?
At the same time, they noticed something strange and fell into thinking.

"Xiaolan, I remembered. Just now in the house, the kidnappers mentioned 'Chef Zhao'. Could it be that this person also works in the hotel?"

"I have worked as a pastry chef in the pastry room of the hotel for more than two months," Qilan patted his head, "There is no one with the surname Zhao among the six people with me."

This cake is the hotel's signature dessert, and it's not easy to make.

The requirements for kneading, fermenting, and baking are very high. He is considered talented. It took a month of learning to get started, which took a lot of effort.

The best one is Master Cao from Guangzhou.

Slow work and meticulous work, usually the store is busy from morning to night, and only bakes a hundred or so a day.

The guests feel too little to eat, how can a working chef have the qualifications to taste it.

Chef Zhao may be familiar with him, so he can eat it.

Seeing the two of them staring blankly at a crushed cake, Xiao Jin was annoyed and funny.

She looked up and raised her voice:
"Hey, there is a small card hanging on this branch? Isn't it much more useful than that dirty cake?"

After she instructed, Chen Xing quickly took the dead branch and knocked the small card to the ground, picked it up and handed it to Qilan.

"There is a word 'Wu' engraved on it—is it the hotel's work card?"

The yellow-brown sign is made of wood, only half the size of a palm, with a small hole in the middle, and a white thread pierced through it.

It is thin and about the same color as the trunk.

If it is not for good eyesight and careful observation, it is very easy to ignore.

"Brother Chen's guess is right. I also have a sign like this with '二' engraved on it. The larger the number, the higher the level of the person. The fifth level is indeed a chef."

Xiao Jin looked at Zhang Wenxuan carefully, and asked puzzledly:

"Doctor Zhang, why are you tied up here?! The three of us came here to look for Young Master Qijiang after seeing someone in the room signaling with blue smoke."

"I had a drink with Xiaolan the night before to bid farewell, and I planned to go back to my hometown for a while. On the way, I went to visit Yuexian in the church cemetery. I ran into her parents. They kidnapped me on impulse and locked me in the cellar of the Tang family."

"Brother Zhang, Yueshan secretly took the key and took us to the cellar to look for you, but found nothing. Instead, I ran into Sergeant Liu upstairs and threatened Boss Tang to hand you over."

"Huh? Sergeant Liu has gone to Yue Xian's house? It must be bad luck!"

Zhang Wenxuan wiped off his cold sweat, "I heard a noise in a daze at night. Someone entered the cellar and called my name. I thought it was someone with good intentions who came to rescue me."

"What happened next?"

"I was put in a sack, I couldn't see anything, and I almost suffocated."

Qilan clapped his hands in a sudden realization: "That's right! That person must be the one who hanged himself. He sneaked into the Tang family's mansion and found out where you are locked up, so he will try to transport him out."

"But why does he still want to die? You can exchange money if you are tied up. Who would kill himself when he is about to get it?"

"Don't underestimate it," Xiao Jin interrupted Chen Xing calmly, "The person who committed suicide is not the same as the person who was hanged. If you want to die, the rope will not be so knotted, nor will it be hung so high!"

In the past three years, she has witnessed many methods used by colleagues to disguise the scene after silence.

Hanging himself, without any suspense, is the most common externally, but it is also the most easily exposed disguise.Know what to do at a glance.

"I'll go and put the dead man down. It's so high up that I can't see very well."

Qilan volunteered to climb a tree.

Xiao Jin calmly stopped him, "Lend me the dagger!"

"Bah!"

There was a crisp metallic sound, and a ray of silver light flew obliquely overhead.

Wherever the blade touched, the ropes snapped off.

"thump!"

The body fell face down heavily to the ground.

Qilan stared at the dagger worriedly, fearing that it would fall into the adjacent courtyard wall.

Unexpectedly, like a trained pigeon, it made a half circle and flew back without any risk, and was firmly caught by Xiao Jin.

She returned the dagger to its original owner, and still teased the nervous owner who was sweating profusely:

"I can't lose it, it makes you nervous!"

Qilan put away the dagger, and called his good brothers to turn over the corpse on the ground like a wooden stake.

"He died not long ago, and there are no spots on his skin. It seems that he was killed before we arrived."

Chen Xing shook his head in confusion: "I didn't stick out my tongue, it's unscientific."

Qilan squatted down where the head of the corpse was, and took a closer look.

The dead man's lips were covered with a layer of black blood, the upper and lower pieces couldn't close together, and half opened like a deep cave.

"Could it be that the tongue was cut off? How about we confirm it now?"

As soon as he finished speaking, Chen Xing suddenly shut his mouth, and Xiao Jin also turned his face away in disgust.

Qilan couldn't pry open the mouth of the deceased alone, and he couldn't count on the two of them to help.

The silent Zhang Wenxuan finally spoke:

"I studied medicine and dissected the human body a lot. Let me try it alone."

He cautiously stretched out two fingers and probed down towards the cave-like place.

The three people present were all scalp numb, but he announced without changing his expression:

"Xiao Lan guessed it right. There is no tongue, even the root of the tongue has been dug out."

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