atypical prostitute

Chapter 255

As the sun sets, the peach blossoms are like fire.

Bai Yinmei originally planned to follow Li Ci's carriage back to Jiedu's mansion, but unexpectedly, after getting on the horse, he received a letter from a flying pigeon, so he rode the horse and whipped away again.

Looking at the smoke and dust billowing on the official road, the uneasiness in Li Ci's heart became more and more intense for some reason.So she stopped the carriage, ordered Lin guards to go back to the house quickly, and sent a message to the staff, asking them to sort out all the files of the extermination case that occurred in the Xie Dynasty since she fell ill.

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It was already dusk when we returned to the Jiedu Ambassador's Mansion, and a servant reported that the files Madam wanted to see had been found.

Li Ci nodded approvingly, changed her clothes, lit a pot of fresh incense, and sat leaning on the imperial concubine's couch, flipping through each one, feeling more and more heavy.

On the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, 120 members of Liu Shanren’s family in Qinzhou were killed. Seventeen elders from the same village who assisted in the ancestor worship were also killed.

On the 15rd day of the first lunar month, [-] members of Lu Bingzhong's family in Liuzhou were killed. Wu Zuo found a large vat the height of a person at the scene.

On the twenty-fifth day of the first lunar month, Fengjia Village in Huzhou was slaughtered. When the yamen servants arrived, their eyes were full of scorched earth, and the corpses were too damaged to be identified...

On February [-]nd, Shi Qing, a famous dragon dancer in southern Shanxi, died at home. When he was found, he had been dead for a long time. His face was ferocious, his eyes were bumpy, his finger bones were smashed, and his death was horrible...

A series of tragedies drifted by like flowing water, because they were official documents, in addition to describing the scene accurately and concisely, they also cleaned up the relationship between relatives and friends of the deceased. There is absolutely no reason for vendetta against neighbors.Therefore, at the end of almost every dossier, words of incompetence and lax supervision are written in the same way.

Li Ci supported his forehead, and while reading, he made marks on the sand table. By the time he finished reading the latest tragedy that happened in Qingzhou, the sand table was densely packed with ribbons and pearl marks.

Li Ci casually threw the dossier on the ground.

These extermination cases took place all over the country, and there was no connection between the dead, and there was no similarity in the modus operandi except for the cruelty.

But - when all the cases happened, Bai Yinmei was not in Liangzhou.

However, it is only this almost nonexistent connection!
In fact, in order to find an antidote for their generals, most of the people in the Jiedu Mansion have been traveling around for the past few months, staying in Liangzhou for only a handful of times. What Mei did was really too arbitrary.

How could I doubt him like that!

Li Ci, who was ashamed of his suspicion, squatted down and pulled out the small marks from the sand table. Unexpectedly, when he looked up, he saw Jun Fengxi entering with a fan.

"Why are you here?" She stood up, waved her sleeves, and signaled the maid to prepare tea and pastries.

"Can't I come over?"

Talking leisurely, Jun Fengxi casually picked up the file at his feet, sat cross-legged, and glanced at it casually.

"When I was studying in Qingzhou a few years ago, I didn't pick up things on the road and didn't close the door at night. It was quite a sage's legacy. Unexpected...unexpected..."

Shaking his head to evaluate, he casually put the file back on the desk.

"But don't you think there are too many bloody cases this year?"

Li Ci said casually, pointing to the crowded pile on the table.

"These are all unsolved Miemen massacre files that have occurred since the beginning of the year. There are a total of 27 cases, and one case occurs almost every three days."

"Speaking of which, it is indeed a bit too much."

Still in a nonchalant tone, Jun Fengxi rolled up her sleeves with a smile, and said to Li Ci: "Hold out your hand, I'll give you your pulse."

Li Ci obeyed, showing her wrists and arms, Jun Fengxi nodded, took the silk handkerchief, covered it, and then lowered her fingers, feeling her pulse, and said: "Why are you suddenly interested in these files?"

"It was just a whim."

Li Ci said perfunctorily, seeing Jun Fengxi's lustrous face showing embarrassment, he said, "But something is wrong with the pulse?"

"Your pulse condition is stable and there is nothing weird about it. I... I feel that I am incompetent, but even now, I still can't make an antidote, and I can only rely on the requiem to prolong your life."

"Life and death are fate, you don't have to blame yourself."

Li Ci said frankly that the poisoner was the most honorable woman in the entire empire, if the poison used for her was arsenic that can be found everywhere, she would feel despised instead.

"How can I not blame myself, I... hate the feeling of being out of control! I have calculated so much, but in the end I failed to calculate God's will, that feeling... I will save you at all costs, because I need a victory to prove my Still in control of everything!"

Said the rebellious words as if nothing had happened, Jun Fengxi's face was not arrogant, just calm.

"...I don't think as far as you do... So far, everything I have done is to protect the people around me."

With an indifferent smile, Li Ci took out a file from the table.

"I have been to Qianrui Villa many times as a guest. The owner and his wife are compassionate people, and everyone in the villa is happy and happy, laughing and laughing, like a paradise. Unexpectedly... In a blink of an eye, I became a lonely ghost... Then The murderer is really insane!"

"Insane? I don't think so. The murderer is cruel, but the victim may not be truly innocent."

"how do you know?"

"Because I have lived many, many times and met many, many people. I know many, many secrets that will never be revealed. Even saints and benevolent people have done cruel things. What's more, they are just so-called good people in the world."

"But... regardless of whether the victim was at fault or not, the murderer's methods are still...too cruel!"

Li Ci said unhappily, and laid out the three dossiers side by side, pointing.

The skull was broken, the tendons were broken, the skin was peeled off...every sentence made people feel a deep chill.

"Many people say that the murderer is a lunatic, but I don't think he is crazy. At least what he did proves that he is very rational. He is a rational lunatic."

She reiterated word by word, Jun Fengxi couldn't help laughing.

"These bloody cases spread all over the country, how dare you assert that they...are committed by the same person?"

"A woman's intuition."

Li Ci said affirmatively, raised her head, and looked at Jun Fengxi: "I heard that those who have achieved success in cultivating the Tao can travel thousands of miles in an instant, I don't know if it is true or not?"

"...If these cases were really committed by the cultivator sect, once they are found out, they will be cleared up by their own sect." Jun Fengxi said noncommittally.

"I don't think so. A teacher who can teach such a disciple is not a famous and decent school!"

Li Ci said something pointedly, took the lady's fan, and half covered the corners of her lips.

A woman's intuition is a terrible thing.

Jun Fengxi smiled ambiguously, and said, "But why? Why do you want to kill these people? They are all benevolent families, and they seldom have enmity with others...Why would a cultivator use such cruel means to destroy them all?"

"I'm not interested in why the murderer must use such a method to kill them. I just want to know, is the person who killed them the one we are all familiar with?!"

Li Ci reiterated, with a stern voice.

"……why?"

"No reason, just want to know."

The frank and almost absurd answer made people not even know how to answer, looking at her determined eyes, Jun Fengxi sighed.

"If Ah Mei really did it, what are you going to do with it?"

"I will kill whoever made him do these things!"

"But what if he did these things of his own volition?"

"I will restrain him as much as possible, and at the same time bury the truth for him."

Although she didn't want to admit it, she did consider the possibility that Bai Yinmei was the murderer more than once, so when Jun Fengxi asked her what she planned to do, she blurted out the short answer.

"But you still insisted on finding out the truth just now, and you also dismissed the murderer as a lunatic and a deranged devil."

"Because at that time I wasn't sure that the murderer was always A Mei. It is true that it is against conscience to cover up the murderer and let the deceased be wronged. But people are selfish. To me, A Mei is a very important existence, at least more than Most of the world is more important. For him... I can ignore my conscience."

"conscience?"

Repeating the unfamiliar words amusingly, a smile appeared on the corner of Jun Fengxi's mouth.

"For him, can you really do this step?"

"Conscience and morality are important, but they can't compare to the warmth of someone who sincerely wants to protect you. I have lost Yun'er, and I don't want to lose A Mei! I was born with a sin, and I once committed the crime of killing my father. In recent years, he has been more addicted to power, and he has killed many innocent people... It's just adding a few insignificant sums to the blood debt, what's the big deal?"

Looking at her determined eyes, Jun Fengxi hesitated.

He shook his fan unnaturally, and finally hesitated: "The one who killed them was Chu Qing."

"Chu Qing... Then I can rest assured."

Li Ci felt really relieved when she got Jun Fengxi's answer.

Even though she had long been aware of the causal relationship between these cases and Bai Yinmei, she knew that Jun Fengxi was lying.However, no matter how much doubts she puts in her heart, and how solid the evidence is in reality, as long as someone tells her that Bai Yinmei is not the murderer, she is willing to believe it.

Even if the person who said this is dripping with deception from every pore in his body!

Because she refuses the truth and refuses to be told the truth.

She has always been rational, but in this matter, she stubbornly refused the truth, even though her heart was already shaking, she was still trying to convince herself.

"...Chu Qing...I heard that he...was very close to the Queen Mother."

"He is a shrewd man, knowing that unless he borrows the imperial power, there is no possibility of revenge!"

"revenge?"

"I killed Chu Kuang."

Jun Fengxi said nonchalantly, because hearing the familiar and disgusting name Chu Kuang, the woman's gentle face suddenly became sharp.

"From this point of view, these bloody cases were indeed caused by Chu Qing. The purpose, most likely, is to refine the youthful pill for the Queen Mother... Unfortunately... Even if you are a celestial master, you can cover the sky with one hand, and you can't cover up the truth forever! Don't miss it, I want to see how the queen mother will deal with herself after the truth of conniving at the state teacher to kill innocent people for alchemy is exposed!"

(End of this chapter)