Xian Xian

Chapter 64: Villa

The place where Li Chaoge stayed was not far from Luzhou. The next day, everyone got up early, and after hurried for a day, they finally entered Luzhou City in the evening.

At this moment, the fishing boat sang late, the sunset melted gold, and there were men and women dressed as warriors everywhere on the roadside. Luzhou has already gathered several sects of Jianghu. Recently, because of Qianyuan Sword, it has attracted a large group of people watching the excitement. So at this moment, the streets of Luzhou are especially smelling of fireworks, and the sound of swaying by the river is continuous. Accompanied by the enthusiastic screams of hawkers, the heroic spirit of the arena, which is completely different from that of Dongdu, rushes towards you.

Bai Qianhe rode on the horse, looked at the familiar scene of prosperity, and said with emotion, “I’m hungry.”

However, the two masters in the front are devoted to work, and have no intention of taking a break. Without looking back, Li Chaoge said: “Go to the government office first, and supper is not in a hurry.”

Bai Qianhe looked at the steaming bamboo rice on the roadside, thinking that he was actually in a hurry. However, it was the uncle who took the money. Bai Qianhe couldn’t help but Li Chaoge, so he could only endure the heartache and pass by Zhende.

Li Chaoge and Gu Mingke went straight to the Luzhou government office. Each city has a different shape, but the position of the government is the same. They all sit north and face south and ride on the central axis. Li Chaoge was familiar with the road, and soon found the governor’s mansion.

At this time, someone was guarding the gate of the government office, constantly looking towards the road. The concierge has been watching for a whole day, and he knows that there are big people coming from the east. He heard that the background is very impressive. It will only be two days according to the itinerary. The concierge stared eagerly at the direction of the city gate, but no one was seen. He was about to give up. Suddenly he saw a group of people coming across the street. The leader was a man and a woman. The appearance was extremely outstanding, and the guards behind were all majestic and mighty.

Upon seeing the concierge, he immediately felt that this was the imperial commission of the capital. Although he didn’t understand why there were women in the team, he couldn’t be wrong with this attitude and dress.

The pedestrian walked straight towards the government office. When the concierge saw this scene suddenly, his hands began to tremble. He quickly ran into the gate and yelled as he ran, “East is here, East is here!”

Li Zhaogelema stopped in front of the Cishi Mansion. She looked up at the plaque on the gate and said: “I saw the emperor’s messenger, not in a hurry to ask for peace. Instead, I was too busy to report letters inside. The Luzhou government office is really interesting.”

Gu Mingke had dismounted, and heard her words, said: “Seeing one step at a time, let’s get down first.”

Li Chaoge jumped to the ground. As soon as she stood firm, a wave of people came out from the gate of the Cishi Mansion. The person in the lead wore a blue official shirt, and when he saw Gu Mingke, he immediately saluted and said: “It’s good to be an ambassador. Shi Zhao Zhenyi, the governor of Lu, sends greetings to the saint queen.”

“Chang Shi, please. When I return to Beijing, I will convey your greetings to the sage queen. In addition…” Gu Mingke raised his hand to Li Chaoge and said, “This is the line chief, the commander of the town demon division.”

Town Demon Division? Chang Shi frowned suspiciously, and looked up and down critically at Li Chaoge. Who is the commander, and where is the town demon division? Haven’t heard of it before, I’m afraid it’s not a liar pretending to be?

Li Chaoge knew what he was thinking as soon as he looked at Chang Shi’s expression. Li Chaoge smiled kindly, and said without hesitation: “Zhao Changshi, we met for the first time, and I hope that we will have a good time together. Oh, yes, I forgot to say, my last name is Li and my name is Chaoge. If you still want to If you don’t get up, you can call me Princess Sheng Yuan.”

Chang Shi’s expression hesitated when he heard Li Chaoge’s surname Li. Li Chaoge’s name seemed familiar, but he couldn’t remember where he had heard it. Until Li Chaoge said Princess Sheng Yuan, Chang Shi finally remembered where he had seen this name.

On the court’s mansion newspaper! Chang Shi’s legs were so frightened that he hurriedly walked down the steps in three steps and made two steps, and said to Li Chaoge, “It turns out that it is Princess Sheng Yuan, the subordinates are damned, she has been negligent, please forgive the princess.”

Li Chaoge was accustomed to seeing these prestigious faces, she didn’t bother to talk nonsense with these people, and said directly: “Lead the way ahead and go to the governor’s residence and the crime scene.”

Chang Shi couldn’t help being careful, his face was full of embarrassment: “The murder scene is **** and bad. The princess’s daughter is a golden body. It’s not good to be smashed by blood. Why don’t you find a beautiful place for the princess, princess…”

“lead the way.”

Several people Bai Qianhe stood behind, silently not speaking, looking at Governor Lu Shi with a sympathetic look. The Governor of Lu Prefecture, Shi Khan, is about to come down, and he? Didn’t he have never seen the relatives of the emperor, why is Li Chaoge, a princess, more powerful and terrifying than the serious prince King Wu?

Where is this princess? This is clearly an ancestor.

Li Chaoge’s face was cold, his face was frosty, and his aura was shocking. Chang Shi didn’t dare to shirk any more, and bit his scalp, “The officials obey orders. Princess, the place of the murder case…it is not very elegant, please prepare for the princess.”

Li Chaoge naturally knows it. When it comes to understanding the dead, her long history is far less professional than her. Chang Shi tremblingly led the way, Li Chaoge and Gu Mingke followed, followed by Zhou Shao, Dali Temple and others.

The imperial palaces at all levels are shaped like imperial palaces. The front is the Yahou Mansion, the front is the public hall, the study, the conference hall and other office institutions, and the back is the mansion for the chief and his family to live in. Luzhou is at the level of the central state, and the highest official is the governor. According to the truth, the governor should stay in the government office regardless of office or accommodation, work in the front government office during the day, and go to sleep in the back government office at night.

Rao is that Li Chaoge was mentally prepared for the murder scene, and when she saw the place, she was still surprised. Li Chaoge looked at the darkness in front of him, stretched out his hand and scratched the pillar, and asked, “Is it on fire?”

“Yes.” Chang Shi rubbed his hands and seemed a little nervous. “Last night there was a sky fire, and the scrolls and papers here were all lit up all at once. The subordinates led people to fight to the rescue, so it was easy to put them out.”

Therefore, the main courtyard of the dignified governor’s house, the place where governors used to work and discuss politics, was burned to a scorched earth. Li Chaoge retracted his fingers, crushed the sawdust on his fingertips into black dust, and asked, “What’s inside?”

Li Chaoge’s face was calm, but Chang Shi was inexplicably guilty and short of breath under such gaze, and his voice became lower and lower: “All…it’s all burned.”

“The third governor died here?”

“Yes.”

Li Chaoge chuckled softly, his tone unknown: “You are so nice.”

The office and the murder scene of the previous governors, the place with the most clues, happened to be all burned. Others searched for useful clues inside the house, and Li Chaoge stood outside the house and waited. After a while, Gu Mingke also came out and stood by her side and said, “It’s all burned down, there is almost nothing?”

Li Chaoge knew it would be like this. She looked up at the flying auspicious clouds on the dougong, and said softly: “It rained last night, and this can still cause a fire. They really bother.”

Gu Mingke wiped his fingers with the kerchief. Even if there was no dust on it, he wiped it again, and then said: “The first governor who died in Luzhou, Cao Yi, Guan Nei Renshi, the official evaluation said he was impatient. He was irritable and hated like hatred. He repeatedly clashed with his colleagues in office. The evaluation was not good in the staff department, but he was flattened for many years. Cao Yiru? Why died so far there is no unified statement. The staff department records that he died of illness. ?, but the tone seems questionable. After Cao Yi died, the court sent Wu Jinyuan to take over. Wu Jin was originally the longest in Luzhou. At the end of the 20th year of Yonghui, he died of a ill in the spring of 22. Because Luzhou successively died. Many officials were unwilling to come to Luzhou. The Luzhou Municipal Government had been vacant for three months. It was only in June this year that the new governor, Xu Xingning, finally came. However, within a month, Xu Xingning also died.”

“How did you die?” “There is no written on the official materials, we need to check it.” Gu Mingke glanced at the blackened door and window porch, but the house was burned in the central courtyard of the governor, and said, ” It seems that this mansion is not suitable for living. Let’s go outside and find another place to live.”

Li Chaoge nodded, just intent on this. As special envoys of the imperial court and representatives of saints, they should have lived in the official government. But depending on the situation here, it’s better not to live.

Li Chaoge thought for a while, and asked: “Wu Jinyuan, that is, the second governor, the one who stayed the longest in Luzhou, what happened to him? What kind of illness?”

“On the official dossier, only sickness is mentioned, and no specific symptoms are recorded. I planned to come to Luzhou to investigate the case here, but unfortunately, it was burned.”

Li Chaoge sighed and said, “No matter. They go in such a big circle, they must have a plan. As long as they have a plan, they will not be at peace. We can just wait for them to send it to the door.”

For the present, it can only be so. After Li Chaoge and Gu Mingke had finished speaking, the three officials of Dali Temple came out from the inside and said to Gu Mingke: “Gu Sicheng, the inside is empty. We only found some pieces of paper in the corner, but unfortunately it was burned and could not be read. NS.”

“Take it away.” Gu Mingke said, “All paper with words, regardless of the degree of damage, will be taken away.”

People from Dali Temple should go down. Zhou Shao and Mo Linlang also came out, and Li Chaoge asked, “Have you found something?”

Li Chaoge seemed to be asking something, but he was actually asking Ma Linlang if he saw any unusual ghosts. Investigating, reasoning, and retrieving information is the method of Dali Temple’s case handling. As the town demon division, they naturally do not take the usual path.

Mo Linlang shook his head: “No.”

Li Chaoge sighed regretfully. She thought that the three provincial governors died unjustly and the ghosts would wander in the place of death and would not disperse. If? If? I happened to see them and asked Ma Linlang to ask who the murderer was, wouldn’t he solve the case directly?

Unfortunately, there is no such good thing.

The people at Dali Temple didn’t realize Li Chaoge’s true intentions, but Gu Mingke understood it right away. Gu Mingke thought that Li Chaoge was pretty beautiful. After a person died, their souls would disperse within seven days. Only a handful of sullen people who died in vain would turn into ghosts and wander around the world. Among them, the ghosts that can be cultivated are the only one in a thousand. After such a long time, the souls of those three people have entered the cycle of reincarnation long ago. How could it be possible to wait at the scene and make a special trip to send clues to Li Chaoge.

Gu Mingke said: “The investigation is not a temporary effort. The material evidence is burned, but the evidence is still there. You go to the people around you to inquire about the news, listen to and ask more, don’t let any useful news go. Only by fighting steadily, can you? Find out the truth.”

Li Chaoge heard it, and said the last sentence to her. Li Chaoge raised his eyebrows indifferently, and the remaining few people lost their faces when they heard: “Go today?”

“The sooner the better.” Gu Mingke said unmovedly, “Hurry up.”

The three officials of Dali Temple were suddenly frustrated and walked out weakly. Bai Qianhe looked around, got close to Li Chaoge, and asked, “Princess, what about us?”

Li Chaoge smiled, glanced at Gu Mingke lightly, and said in front of the three officials: “No hurry. I, this person is the most sympathetic subordinate, let’s go eat first.”

The three officials in Dali Temple didn’t go far, and when they heard that the people from the Town Demon Division were going to eat, their backs became even more mournful. Gu Mingke felt that Li Chaoge was really naive and hopeless, so he walked down the steps with his hands and said, “You are free.”

When Bai Qianhe heard that he was about to eat, he shouted hello, and immediately volunteered to book a restaurant. No matter how lightly Bai Qianhe works, it will take time to find a restaurant. Li Chaoge followed Gu Mingke calmly and deliberately asked: “Gu Sicheng has been on his way for a day today. Doesn’t he need to rest?”

“Princess Xie is concerned. But in public speaking, life lawsuits are more important than selfish enjoyment.”

Li Chaoge, who is indulging in selfish enjoyment, is not ashamed. She said: “Gu Sicheng is really selfless and selfless. You check first, and I will not be with you.”

Anyway, what clues Gu Mingke found, Li Chaoge asked, he would never say nothing. Li Chaoge’s abacus was fast, she and Gu Mingke walked out of the Cishi Mansion front and back, and found that many people were already surrounded by the door.

The headed person has thick eyebrows and big eyes, and looks majestic. He clasped his fists at Li Chaoge and Gu Mingke, sounding like Hong Zhong: “I have seen Princess Shengyuan and Gu Qinchai. I am the owner of the Tibetan Sword Villa, Hong Chengyuan, waiting for the two for a long time. The Assassin’s Mansion accidentally caught fire last night and could not live. Let the two distinguished guests live in the inn, is it me? Waiting for the host’s negligence. If the princess and Master Gu do not dislike it, you might as well stay in our hotel. Our hotel dare not compare with the palace of the capital, but it’s built on the hill, which is a bit wild. It’s eye-catching. I hope the princess and Master Gu appreciate their faces.”