"My lord, my husband and I had our daughter late in life, and she was our only daughter. Now she has been murdered, and her death was so tragic. Please, my lord, do justice for us and severely punish the murderer, Ye Qingze. He must pay with his life!" Xu the tailor suddenly knelt down, tears streaming down his face.
"Please calm down, gentlemen. I will definitely catch the murderer and make him pay for your daughter's life. But the murderer is not Ye Qingze. You don't want the real murderer to get away with it, do you?" Huang Wenjian said helplessly.
He couldn't push him too hard.
The couple lost their only daughter and had no hope for the future. They were not even afraid of death. If they caused any trouble, he might lose his official position.
Therefore, we must keep them calm.
"Who is the murderer?" Aunt Li asked anxiously.
"I have already sent people to investigate. I assure you both that I will catch the real murderer and make amends for your daughter's life," Huang Wenjian said.
For Mr. and Mrs. Xu, the tailors whose daughter had died tragically, this guarantee was far from enough.
In their eyes, Ye Qingze was the murderer, and Magistrate Huang's actions were tantamount to protecting a murderer. However, they were just ordinary people, and they were naturally somewhat afraid of these officials, so they could only endure it for the time being.
"Xianya, can you figure it out?" Ye Miaoyun gently tugged at Jiang Xianya's sleeve and whispered in her ear.
“Everything has a cause and effect. I just calculated it and only saw a blurry shadow grabbing Xu Qianniang by the back of the neck and pushing her into the water. It was too dark, and the person’s clothes… should be dark blue.”
Jiang Xianya had already calculated that she did not see the man's face in the picture.
Ye Miaoyun was somewhat disappointed upon hearing this.
Dark blue!
This color is so common that men often wear robes in this color.
However... people who work in the fields usually wear gray or cyan.
Dark blue clothing was commonly worn by scholars.
Ye Qingze wasn't wearing a dark blue dress yesterday, but a moon-white robe.
"If I can get Xu Qianniang's blood, I can see some scenes from when Xu Qianniang was alive," Jiang Xianya said in a low voice.
“But Xu Qianniang died in the middle of the night yesterday. It’s almost noon now, six hours have passed. Her blood should have already congealed.” Ye Miaoyun pulled Jiang Xianya aside, afraid that others would hear their conversation.
“Even without blood, as long as we can see the body, we can still make some deductions, especially the places where the murderer touched her, such as… the finger marks on the back of her neck,” Jiang Xianya said quickly.
Fortune telling emphasizes cause and effect and requires a medium; otherwise, one can only see simple images and obtain only ambiguous or largely useless information.
"Then... how about we sneak off and take a look?" After Ye Miaoyun finished speaking, she pulled Jiang Xianya back two steps.
If they take a few more steps back, they can leave the courtroom.
While everyone was arguing, Jiang Xianya and Ye Miaoyun quickly slipped away.
Jiang Xianya walked and calculated, and soon led Ye Miaoyun to the place in the yamen that was used to store corpses.
Besides Xu Qianniang, there was another body in the morgue, covered with a white cloth.
Ye Miaoyun glanced inside and got goosebumps all over her body; she didn't dare go in again.
“Xianya, you… know mystical arts and aren’t afraid of these things, so I won’t go.” Ye Miaoyun’s legs trembled.
Just then, Jiang Xianya heard footsteps. She quickly pulled Ye Miaoyun inside, and the mother and daughter hid behind the door.
A moment later, a constable entered. He looked around and was about to turn around to check behind the door when Jiang Xianya quickly stuck the talisman she was holding onto the constable's back.
"Mother, wait for me here. I'll be right back." Jiang Xianya said as she quickly went forward and found Xu Qian's mother's body.
After the female coroner examined the body, Xu Qianniang's body was slightly tilted to the left, and Jiang Xianya saw a clear finger mark on the back of her neck.
She quickly began to calculate using the sect's secret techniques, and gradually some clear images appeared in her mind.
The man was very tall and strong. When he grabbed Xu Qianniang by the neck and pushed her into the water, Xu Qianniang was unable to break free and soon drowned.
After Xu Qianniang drowned, the man pulled her out of the water and threw her onto the grass on the shore.
Jiang Xianya finally got a clear look at the man's face.
It was an extremely ordinary face, but as long as she saw the face, she could identify the person.
What Jiang Xianya found somewhat unbelievable was that the man then took out a talisman from his pocket and stuck it on Xu Qianniang, locking her soul and preventing her from being reincarnated in the underworld. He also stripped her clothes and did some beastly things.
Later, that beast even took out a small black jar and performed a ritual, summoning the little ghosts he had raised. He used their ghostly power to nourish Xu Qianniang's ghost until it was about to break the seal of the talisman on her body, at which point it quickly left.
No wonder Xu Qianniang could manifest in broad daylight. Besides receiving some of the power from Ye Qingze's talisman after her blood flowed onto it before she died, she was also very powerful herself.
Someone deliberately killed her, raped her, and turned her into a vengeful ghost.
But there was one thing Jiang Xianya didn't understand.
Shouldn't Xu Qianniang hate the person who killed her, defiled her, and turned her into a vengeful ghost?
Why did she kill Ye Qingze?
Jiang Xianya hadn't forgotten that when Ye Qingze appeared by the lake, Xu Qianniang tried to kill him repeatedly, lunging at him.
Jiang Xianya did not linger there; she quickly left with Ye Miaoyun.
Before leaving, she even tore off the talisman she had stuck on the back of the constable.
"Xianya... what kind of talisman did you put on that constable? Why did he suddenly stop moving?" Ye Miaoyun asked curiously after they had walked a distance away.
“That’s a talisman that immobilizes you,” Jiang Xianya said with a smile.
"That's amazing! Do you have any more?" Ye Miaoyun asked quickly.
If you have any, please send her a few more.
If anyone dares to mess with her in the future, she can freeze them with a single talisman.
Jiang Xianya: "..."
“Mother, this immobilization talisman is not an ordinary talisman, but a special spiritual talisman. It is very troublesome to make and requires spiritual energy to activate. I was only able to barely gather some spiritual energy from heaven and earth to activate the talisman because of my strong soul power.”
Ye Miaoyun was immediately disappointed upon hearing this.
It turns out that ordinary people can't use this thing.
When the mother and daughter returned to the courtroom, the case was still not closed. The Xu tailor and his wife insisted that Ye Qingze was the one who killed their daughter, and threatened to kill themselves to force Huang Wenjian to deal with Ye Qingze.
This couple was really going all out. Under normal circumstances, ordinary people like them would never dare to challenge the county magistrate.
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