They lost their only daughter and their hope of survival. At that moment, living was more painful than dying.
They are not afraid of death; they would gladly die if they could seek justice for their daughter.
"I've seen the murderer!" Jiang Xianya said loudly as she walked in.
Everyone turned to look at her upon hearing this, and they were all a little confused.
After all, Jiang Xianya is still a young girl who hasn't reached marriageable age yet. Can we trust what she says?
Jiang Xianya didn't give anyone a chance to refute her and said directly, "I have sleepwalking. Last night, I got up in my sleep and went out. I happened to go to the river and saw Xu Qianniang being held down in the water and drowning. I was so scared that I woke up from my sleepwalking and was almost discovered by the villains."
"You...you're telling the truth?" Huang Wenjian asked in disbelief.
“Everything I said is true.” Jiang Xianya nodded: “I am skilled in painting and can draw a portrait of this person. I am also skilled in divination and can tell you where this person is. You can then send someone to arrest him and bring him to justice. After interrogation, you will know that what I said is true.”
Huang Wenjian was stunned after hearing Jiang Xianya's words.
Where...where did this girl come from? How can she be so strange?
"Who are you?" Huang Wenjian asked, his face full of confusion.
“My name is Jiang Xianya, and I am his daughter!” Not wanting to cause any more trouble, Jiang Xianya turned her head and pointed to Qi Jiu standing to the side.
Huang Wenjian definitely knew Qi Jiu's true identity.
Sure enough, Huang Wenjian immediately understood when he heard that Jiang Xianya was Qi Jiu's daughter.
This girl is Qi Jiu's stepdaughter.
It has to be said that this mother and daughter are quite lucky. Although the Ninth Prince is now an exiled criminal, as long as the Emperor is in a good mood, he might be recalled to the capital in three to five years.
As long as the Ninth Prince doesn't abandon this woman, then she and her daughter will be able to enjoy a life of happiness.
That would be an immense fortune and glory.
"I would like to trouble you, sir, to have someone prepare a set of writing brush, ink, paper, and inkstone for me. I will draw the murderer's portrait right away," Jiang Xianya said calmly.
The Xu couple, tailors and tailors, did not believe Jiang Xianya's words, feeling that she was protecting Ye Qingze.
Jiang Xianya was too lazy to say much, and soon finished painting the portrait.
"Do you recognize this person?" Huang Wenjian waved his hand, signaling the constables and yamen runners in the yamen to come and take a look.
Jiang Xianya's painting is very good, but unfortunately no one has ever seen her, so they cannot provide any useful clues.
Jiang Xianya quickly calculated and was about to tell Huang Wenjian the approximate location of this person so that he could send someone to arrest the heretic, when she heard Xu the tailor's voice.
"I...I've seen this person before, I've seen him!" Xu the tailor exclaimed excitedly.
"Where have you seen him?" Huang Wenjian's eyes lit up, and he quickly asked.
“This man had two sets of clothes made in my tailor shop three days ago, and asked me to sew them for him within two days. He even gave me an extra tael of silver.”
For Xu the tailor, such a good thing as earning an extra tael of silver was a rare occurrence, happening only once a year. Since this person was so generous, he paid more attention to him.
But the little girl said that the person who killed and defiled her daughter was this bastard.
"Did he take the clothes?" Huang Wenjian asked.
“He took it. He came to pick it up yesterday afternoon.” Xu the tailor said with a look of grief and indignation, “When he picked up the clothes, Qian Niang was there. It was Qian Niang who wrapped the clothes up and gave them to him.”
It must be that bastard who saw how pretty his daughter Qian was and had evil intentions.
Xu the tailor couldn't help but burst into tears.
"Miss Jiang, can you pinpoint the location of the murderer?" Huang Wenjian knew he wouldn't get any clues from Xu the tailor, so he quickly turned to Jiang Xianya and asked in a low voice.
The people of the Great Yan Dynasty believed in Taoism, and there were Taoist temples on the outskirts of every county town. When encountering plagues or strange occurrences that could not be resolved, the county government would seek help from the Taoist temples.
Sometimes, when the county government couldn't find the culprit, they would ask the Taoist priests for help. If it was the work of ghosts or evil people, the Taoist temples would naturally be responsible for resolving it. If the temples couldn't resolve it, they would report to the imperial court and ask the esoteric masters of the Taiyi sect to come down the mountain.
This young lady Jiang said she could calculate the murderer's location, so she must be a Taoist practitioner.
However... none of the Taoist priests at the Taoist temples outside their county town have this ability.
Anyway, in the previous times I asked the Taoist priests for help, none of them could calculate the location of the murderer.
“Go east out of the county town, towards Huaxi Town, for about three miles. There’s a fork in the road. Turn off the main road and take the small road on the right. Walk for about a mile, and there’s a mountain on the left. That person is in a cave halfway up the mountain. Adults, take more people with you. Do not try to capture him at night. He’s an evil cultivator. He carries a black jar with many little ghosts in it, and he definitely has other methods.” Jiang Xianya’s face was a little pale after she finished speaking.
Her body was too weak to withstand the burst of soul power. The key point was... she didn't have that person's things; she had only seen the man's face in the image. To forcibly deduce his location, she would need to use the secret techniques of the Taiyi Sect.
This treatment almost caused her soul to leave her body.
"Xianya, what's wrong?" Ye Miaoyun noticed that her face looked strange and quickly stepped forward to take Jiang Xianya's hand, but touched blood. When she looked down, she found that her daughter had lacerations on the back of her hands, and both hands had them. Although the wounds were not deep, there were several of them.
"What's going on?" Ye Miaoyun exclaimed in shock.
"You couldn't control your strength. Be careful next time," Jiang Xianya said softly as she withdrew her hand.
It seems she needs to find some time to improve her physical fitness.
She is no longer the number one person in the Taiyi Sect. She needs to gradually improve her physique and integrate her own power, otherwise she will suffer a backlash sooner or later.
"I'll go to the pharmacy to buy you some medicine," Ye Miaoyun said hurriedly, feeling extremely distressed.
"Mother, don't rush, we'll go together later." Jiang Xianya was worried about her going alone, so she quickly grabbed her.
"Thank you, Miss Jiang. Officer He and Officer Li, take all the constables from the county government and let's hurry over while it's still early." Huang Wenjian planned to personally lead the men to arrest the murderer.
"Just in case, sir, you might as well send someone to the Taoist temple outside the county town and ask a few Taoist priests to accompany you," Jiang Xianya suggested.
"Thank you, young lady." Huang Wenjian quickly replied and immediately sent someone away.
"Ninth Master, I'll be going now." As he left, Huang Wenjian deliberately went to Qi Jiu and said in a low voice.
Qi Jiu deliberately took two steps back, pretending not to hear.
He's just an ordinary person now, don't talk to him.
A moment later, Jiang Xianya and the others left the county government office.
She spotted the female ghost Xu Qianniang standing under the tree opposite the county government office at a glance.
The county government office was built with great care in terms of feng shui. The layout inside and the iron lions at the gate were all designed to suppress evil spirits, so ghosts and monsters could not get in.
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