Soon, seven or eight people moved the big stone away...
"Your Highness, there seems to be a dry well under this stone."
"Ah, what's going on?"
"Your Highness, don't panic. It's not surprising to find a dry well in an abandoned house!"
Just as Xing Bang approached, a middle-aged man who looked like a leader frowned and looked at the bottom of the well and said thoughtfully: "There may be something strange at the bottom of this well. There must be a corpse..."
The second level of enlightenment!
Xing Bang used his clairvoyance to look at the middle-aged man. Without the obstruction of the big rock, he probably also smelled the stench of corpses at the bottom of the well.
Xia Changqing followed closely and naturally heard it. He glared at the person who spoke and said, "Don't speak nonsense and exaggerate in front of His Highness!"
Damn it, there really is a dead body. Isn’t this going to cause trouble for me?
"Sir, I dare not speak nonsense. Based on my years of experience in handling cases, I know that this dry well has some clues that must be investigated."
"Who is this?"
Xing Bang could also see that, except for this middle-aged man, the rest were basically idiots.
Xia Changqing coughed lightly, "Oh, he is Zhang Tie, the head of the shop under my command. Everyone calls him Zhang Tietou in private. He is straightforward and speaks without any hesitation."
"He's right. A dry well is nothing serious. But covering it tightly with such a large stone is like trying to cover up a crime. Lord Xia is the prefect of Shuntian Prefecture and has handled many major cases. It's not like he can't understand such a simple truth, right?"
Xing Bang naturally knew that Xia Changqing was a cowardly person...
"Your Excellency has misunderstood. I was just afraid of scaring the Sixth Prince. As the prefect of Shuntian Prefecture, I must get to the bottom of this strange incident."
Xia Changqing's old face tightened in embarrassment, and he quickly made up an excuse.
"I have seen everything, how could I be afraid of these things?"
The Sixth Prince curled his lips in a look of dissatisfaction, although he was indeed a little scared in his heart.
"Zhang Tietou, since the Sixth Prince has spoken, you can do whatever you want."
"Yes, sir!" Zhang Putou agreed, and then shouted to the people behind him: "Bring the rope over, I will go down and investigate myself."
Upon hearing this, a soldier untied the rope from his waist, then took another yamen runner's rope and tied them together. He then pulled one end and threw the other end directly into the dry well.
Zhang Tie was indeed a tough guy. He probably knew that the bunch of punks next to him wouldn't dare to go down either, so he just went down without asking. It was probably because of his high level of cultivation that he was brave and skilled.
Without hesitation, Zhang Tie went down into the dry well.
After about a quarter of an hour, people came up.
"Sir, I was right. We found human remains inside. There is a lot of mud underneath. We may need to conduct a detailed investigation and excavation. From the skulls we found, it is not difficult to find that the dead are all women..."
"Ah, there really are some, aren't they all eaten by ghosts?"
Xia Changqing suddenly felt horrified. It was not just a haunted thing.
"Sir, since they are all women, I have another guess. Could they be related to the missing cases we have not yet solved?"
"Okay, no matter if it's related or not, quickly salvage the body and have the coroner come over to examine it..."
Xia Changqing looked miserable. The case of the missing girl had not been solved yet, and now this kind of thing happened. He felt that things might not be that simple, but he had to take over.
"Your Highness, if you think about it carefully, I'm afraid there is another hidden reason for the haunting of this house."
Although Xing Bang didn't know the specific situation, he could basically conclude that the ghost story was probably intended to cover up the facts here.
Liu Jing nodded, "You are right, I think so too. Then little Korean, do you not want this house?"
"Your Highness, I have taken a fancy to this house, but I have to deal with the issue of it being haunted first."
Xing Bang thought that even if there was nothing wrong with the house itself, the discovery of so many corpses would definitely seem unlucky to any normal person, so this would make it more low-key. Moreover, this was also the place where Nangong Xue and her son once lived.
"Okay."
"Master Xia, you need to find out what is going on here as soon as possible. I am very curious whether this place is really haunted or there is another reason."
Liu Jing was thinking about Xing Bang firstly, and secondly, he wanted to satisfy his own curiosity, but he didn't think that he might accidentally solve a long-standing major case.
"Don't worry, Your Highness. I will organize people to investigate and collect evidence as soon as possible."
Xia Changqing secretly groaned in his heart. His good days were coming to an end. If he couldn't handle it well, he probably wouldn't even be able to go home and hug his child.
"Master Xia, I think you should be very clear about the rumors about ghosts. Why do people believe that this place must be haunted? Is there any strong evidence?"
Xing Bang has always been curious about this question. It is impossible that the Right Prime Minister would say that there is a ghost and everyone would believe it.
The Sixth Prince did not elaborate on these matters, so it seems that he did not know the details.
"Sir, it is true that this is not groundless. I do know some of the circumstances. The wife of the Right Prime Minister and her two personal maids are still frightened to the point of going crazy. I went to their house as a routine visit. It was not a glorious thing, so not many people knew about it."
"There is also this matter. No wonder I didn't know about it. It sounds even more bizarre. If it wasn't haunted, why would the Prime Minister's wife be so scared and crazy?"
"I don't know about this..."
Xia Changqing still believed in the ghost story, because he saw with his own eyes the Prime Minister's wife's crazy appearance, and he always felt it was a pity.
Liu Jing didn't want to look at the corpses, he felt it was boring...
"Little Korean, in that case, let's leave the affairs here to Lord Xia. Let's go back. I am a little tired."
"Yes, Your Highness!"
Xing Bang didn't say anything else and left with the Sixth Prince.
Xia Changqing sighed heavily and said with a bitter face: "What is going on? Coming here in a hurry is just asking for trouble."
…
Right Prime Minister's Office.
"It's bad, it's terrible. The Sixth Prince and Xia Changqing from Shuntian Prefecture are crazy for some reason. They actually took a large group of people to that damn place."
Right Prime Minister Cui Sheng was in a panic like a frightened bird...
"Look at yourself, you don't have the bearing of a Right Prime Minister!"
An extremely beautiful woman calmly pressed Cui Sheng's shoulders and asked him to sit down.
"Oh, auntie, please stop joking. If they find out something, won't everything be over?"
"Look at your lack of ability. What will happen if you are discovered? No matter how secretive a place is, it will be discovered sooner or later..."
The beautiful woman curled her red lips and gently stroked Cui Sheng's face with her silk scarf.
"So you've been prepared for this. Tell me about it so I can feel at ease..."
Cui Sheng looked anxious.
The beautiful woman giggled, then raised her foot and placed it on Cui Sheng's leg...
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