Chapter 78: Kawai
Chapter 78 Dry Well
Hearing her following, Wu Zhao stopped and said: "Miss Xu is waiting, I will go to the forest to find out."
"Let's go together."
Xu Mingyi caught up with him in a few steps.
This was originally her business, and he was very grateful for his willingness to help her. How could it be that he waited in the carriage and left everything to him.
After all, it is not a coolie hired by money.
Wu Chao didn't say anything, when he was about to lift up, he suddenly heard movement in the forest.
"Beware—"
His reminder just fell off, only to see a group of dark things bursting out of the forest, making noisy noises.
Wu Chao subconsciously stepped sideways and took a step, raising his arm to block Xu Mingyi’s eyes.
Azhu came with a wind lantern, and quickly recovered quiet after going around.
Wu Chao put his arm down, walked into the forest, and said: "Don't be afraid, it's just a fruit bat in the forest. It should be because he was disturbed by the objective of heaven that he rushed out."
Xu Mingyi nodded his head with a "hmm".
She didn't feel scared either.
It’s just that Wu Shisun is very righteous to protect her in front of her.
Tianmu flew low in order to lead the way. Several people walked in the forest for about a quarter of an hour. When they had already reached the depths of the forest, Wu Chao slowed down.
Xu Mingyi looked at him.
"Master Wu can also smell it?"
There is a faint smell here, like the smell of animal rotting.
Wu Chao frowned and nodded slightly.
The two of them continued to move forward with the Tianmu, and the smell gradually became more intense and pungent.
Xu Mingyi's expression began to be a bit solemn.
This forest is more than 20 miles away from the city, and it is only an ordinary wood forest, not a fruit forest. There are no households nearby, but there are some fields not far away from the forest. Now when it is not a farming busy day, I want to come to weekdays when few people visit it.
Ruoqing's cousin's hairpin was really found here by the Third Eye, and she really appeared here...
Thinking of the worst possible, Xu Mingyi's heart sank.
Tianmu stopped and screamed when it fell on the trunk of a tree.
Here is where the rancid smell is strongest.
"Tianmu has been raised by me since I was young, and I have never eaten carrion. But the nature of the vulture is like this. I think it is attracted by the carrion nearby." Wu Chao looked around as he spoke.
Tianmu, who was squatting on the tree trunk, yelled in agreement.
It doesn't bother to eat it, just like to see which of its kind died so miserably.
"Girl, there is a dead thing here."
Azhu found a decayed fur animal carcass under a tree, and guessed: "Perhaps it is the smell of this thing."
Xu Mingyi glanced at the lamp in her hand.
"impossible."
The teenager on the side said her thoughts: "This is not a closed place. It is impossible for an animal carcass of this size to continue to emit such a strong smell."
Xu Mingyi nodded and said: "But if someone passes here by accident and smells the foul smell, and sees the animal carcass, they will walk away in a hurry, and will subconsciously treat it as being scattered by this thing, without time to think carefully. "
"That's right."
Wu Chao’s tone was determined: “Someone deliberately placed this dead object here to cover up the real corpse smell.”
Xu Mingyi’s gaze moved inch by inch.
The moonlight is thin, and the sounds of four insects are one after another. Under the concentration, people only feel that they are noisy and contradictory in the quiet.
The girl’s soft embroidered shoes stepped on the dead leaves, making an awake sound.
Xu Mingyi stopped by a sealed well.
Wu Chao followed closely.
There is farmland not far away. In recent years, the imperial court has put a lot of emphasis on farming, and many new wells have been opened on the side of the field.
Such old wells in the forest are abandoned and used once they come and go. It is also common to seal the wellhead with rocks to prevent people from accidentally falling into the well when passing by.
But the smell here is obviously stronger.
Xu Mingyi even unbearably covered his mouth and nose with a veil, frowning and dulling: "I'm afraid there is something in this well—"
Wu Chao nodded.
"You step back."
When the young man was about to move forward to remove the stone, he saw the maid who was pretending to be a small servant walking quickly, lifted the stone apart, and threw it aside heavily, and patted the dust on his hands.
Wu Chao was silent for a moment.
There seems to be nothing that can help.
Azhu lifted the wind lantern and stood above the well head and looked into the well.
The next moment, it was steep and then took two steps, his face was a little pale and said: "Girl, there are dead people..."
Even if the little girl is bold enough, she has never seen a human face that rots to such a degree. At this moment, she suddenly saw this scene, and she was already very courageous without being scared and screaming.
Xu Mingyi grasped his fingers slightly, and hurriedly asked, "Is it a man or a woman?"
"The slave servant didn't see clearly."
Xu Mingyi made a decisive decision: "Get the body up."
A Zhu, who had calmed down, looked at Wu Chao.
She seemed to have robbed what Wu Shisun wanted to do, and now it's better to let Wu Shisun make compensation for the job of fishing the corpse.
"……"
Perceiving the maid’s eyes, Wu Zhao twitched his mouth.
Why does this maid think he can go down to the pit to fish for a corpse?
I'm not afraid of being afraid, but I really don't have the habit of looking for smoke.
"Come out."
The voice of the boy fell, and four dark guards appeared in the darkness immediately.
"Recover the corpse from the well." Wu Chao ordered.
Several dark guards heard the words and tried to make their expressions look like a qualified and calm guard.
Several people endured the smell of the corpse, and quickly picked up the corpse and laid it flat by the well.
"It's a young man." Wu Chao took a look and judged.
Xu Mingyi sighed slightly, then looked at the clothes of the corpse, and guessed: "This may be Qi Lin."
The other party's dress is no different from what the guy in the teahouse described earlier.
Wu Chao gave an "um", and then ordered: "Search his body, and then dive into the well to see if there are other things that are missing."
The dark guard responds.
"My son, this man has two silver tickets hidden in his shoes."
"A woman's hairpin was found at the bottom of the well."
Wu Chao took the hairpin and handed it to Xu Mingyi.
"It's just a pair with the previous one." Xu Mingyi glanced at the corpse again, and roughly guessed in his heart.
This person was bought by someone, so he cheated his cousin out.
The pair of hairpins should have also come down from the comatose cousin Qing. This shows the importance of love for money-it is not surprising that such a person will be easily bought.
He should not dare to stay in Beijing again after the incident was completed, so he hurried out of the city, deliberately hiding away.
And now that people are thrown into this dry well, most of them have been wiped out.
That pair of hairpins should have been accidentally dropped near here when he fled into the dense forest, and then picked up by the third eye—the third eye has good eyesight, so the reason why he picked up this hairpin, It should be the same as Wu Chao, who mistakenly identified this hairpin as her thing.
But……
Xu Mingyi frowned, suddenly felt something was wrong.
Tianmu picked up her hairpin, why not send it back to Zhenguo Gongfu, but to Wu Chao?
This can't help but make people feel puzzled, but there is another business right now, and Xu Mingyi has no intention to think deeply about such trivial matters.
At this time, one of the dark guards who checked the body made a new discovery.
Good morning
(End of this chapter)