Chapter 6 Missing Girl Case
Shen Shixu sat for a while and then left on the pretext of being drunk. After returning to the small courtyard he rented, he asked Xiao Shitou, who followed him, to prepare pen and ink and wrote a long letter to his family.
Before going to bed, he asked Xiao Shitou to wake him up early the next morning and send the letter.
He slept soundly, but in the prince's bedroom in the imperial palace, candles were burning until dawn. Xiao Jinyi stayed with Xiao Yuanqi the whole time, and Emperor Wu'an and Empress Lin also knew that the prince was cheated on.
Emperor Wu'an was extremely angry about the fact that they were fooled by the Yongning Marquis' Mansion. Empress Lin was also very furious. Yang Wenhui was the daughter-in-law she had personally chosen, and she never expected that she would be such a hypocritical, dissolute and shameless person.
When Queen Lin thought about the fact that this person almost married her son and became her daughter-in-law, she felt scared and nauseous.
Emperor Wu An patted Empress Lin's hand to comfort her, "This time, we have to thank Chen Shixu. If he hadn't been bound to such a system, I'm afraid he would really marry such a cheap thing for Qi'er."
Queen Lin was also full of gratitude towards Shen Shixu, "Your Majesty is right. We must thank this Shen Zhuangyuan. I heard that Jin Yi gave him the position of Dali Temple Shaoqing. Regardless of whether he found anything during this investigation with Jin Yi, I think this position should be given to him."
Only Empress Lin dared to say this. If it were anyone else in the harem, Emperor Wu An would have been furious.
"What Wei'er said is true, and I think Shen Shixu doesn't need my help, and he can secure the position of Shaoqing of Dali Temple by himself."
Shen Shixu, who was sleeping, didn't know that Emperor Wu'an valued him so much. He just had a beautiful dream, dreaming that he was promoted step by step and married a fair, rich and beautiful woman. But how come this fair, rich and beautiful woman was taller than him?
The next day, Shen Shixu was woken up by Xiao Shitou, washed up, changed into a space blue gown, held an autumn bamboo fan in his hand, ate two meat buns, drank a bowl of sweet soup, and rushed to Prince Jing's Mansion.
Shen Shixu had just arrived at the gate of Prince Jing's Mansion and was about to knock on the door when a carriage stopped behind him. He turned around and saw Xiao Jinyi coming out with Qingying.
Seeing that Shen Shixu had arrived, Xiao Jinyi didn't bother to go back for breakfast, and took Shen Shixu directly to the Dali Temple, buying two sesame cakes on the way.
After entering the Dali Temple, a clerk in a green shirt came over, and Xiao Jinyi ordered in a cold voice, "Tell Shen Shaoqing about the missing girl's case."
The clerk was stunned for a moment and looked at Shen Shixu who was following behind Xiao Jinyi. He had been in the Dali Temple for many years. He was not an expert in judging cases, but when it came to eye contact, he was second to none.
It is obvious at first glance that Shen Shixu is a rare talent, and one must not look down on him just because he is young.
He whispered to Shen Shixu about the case, "Sir Shen, this girl's disappearance happened three days ago. It was discovered by a rice shop owner. When he went to his warehouse to get rice, he found a woman in tattered clothes. The woman was still alive at the time, and when she saw him, she asked him for help.
Before the rice shop owner could call for help, she died.
When Qian, the owner of the rice shop, saw that the woman's body was covered with scars, including whip marks, knife wounds and burns, he quickly reported the matter to the police.
First, people from Jingzhao Prefecture came to take a look, but they had no clue, so they handed the case over to the Ministry of Justice. The Ministry of Justice didn't find anything, so they handed it over to our Dali Temple.
Later, His Royal Highness Prince Jing heard about it and took over the case. It was also because of His Royal Highness Prince Jing that we learned the identity of the victim. Before that, we didn't even know who she was.
She is the sister of a vanguard officer under His Royal Highness Prince Jing. She has been missing for two years. Her family had looked for her before but there was no news. She suddenly appeared here. Needless to say, there is something fishy going on.
Moreover, after the autopsy by the coroner, the woman's innocence was no longer evident. And although she had many scars on her body, none of them were fatal, but more like boudoir fun. ”
When the clerk said this, he didn't dare to look at Shen Shixu. This Lord Shen looked like he had never had any love affairs. He was afraid that if he told others about such lewd things, it would dirty Shen Shixu's ears.
As they talked, they walked to the autopsy room. Xiao Jinyi was still worried whether Shen Shixu would be scared, but who knew that Shen Shixu went straight up to lift the white cloth covering the corpse and lowered his head to observe carefully.
Shen Shixu first looked at the clothes the female corpse was wearing. Although they had been soaked black by her own blood, it was still possible to tell that they were Tianxiang silk.
The satin flowers of Tianxiang silk are prone to pilling and should not be washed frequently, so poor families would not buy this kind of fabric to make clothes.
People who can afford to wear such clothes have some money at home, but they are not extremely wealthy, which is consistent with Shen Shixu's guess.
He heard from the clerk that the woman had been missing for two years and there was no news after two years of searching. When he suddenly appeared at this moment, he realized that the woman had been locked up somewhere since she was taken away.
Thinking about the scars of boudoir love affairs that the clerk mentioned later, we can probably guess what this woman went through after being captured. And there is definitely no way that there is only one woman like this. There must be many other women imprisoned.
This female corpse must have escaped with great effort, but was chased and injured. She finally hid in a rice shop, but died from excessive blood loss due to her severe injuries.
From the location of the rice shop, we can roughly judge where the woman came from. With so many wounds on her body, she definitely couldn't have run far, so she should be very close to the rice shop.
Seeing that he seemed to have made up his mind, Xiao Jinyi told him what he had found out, "This woman's name is Qiaoying, she is the sister of my vanguard officer, and she disappeared in their hometown two years ago. After she disappeared, their parents immediately reported to the authorities and they were also looking for her, but there was no news at all. No one expected that she would appear in the capital thousands of miles away.
It was a coincidence that I was able to discover her identity. The vanguard officer came to the capital with me. He originally wanted to visit a friend in the Dali Temple, but he accidentally saw the corpse of his sister, which revealed the identity of the female corpse.
After confirming her identity, I went to the rice shop where she was last seen to investigate, and also asked people to ask around to see if anyone had seen Qiaoying.
The information we received was that no one had seen Qiaoying appear nearby, she seemed to have appeared out of thin air in the rice shop. I inspected the rice shop and found that the window of the rice shop warehouse had been opened and there was blood on it, as well as a piece of cloth. There were also several boxes piled outside the window with blood on them.
It was confirmed that the piece of cloth belonged to Qiaoying. She must have looked through the warehouse window when she escaped, stepped on the boxes and climbed into the rice shop through the window. She wanted to ask for help, but she was seriously injured and couldn't move or even make a sound, and died from excessive blood loss.
This is all the information I have received. Has Shen Shaoqing figured out anything? ”
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