Seeing this, Cheng Yunhe could say nothing more and turned slightly to indicate his meaning.
The guard stepped forward and used his sword to cut off the wax seal on the cargo box, then opened it and placed a human head neatly in a box, right in the center of the cargo box.
"A head!" the leader exclaimed upon seeing the head.
Upon hearing this, the waiter outside the door looked at Cheng Yunhe and said in a trembling voice, "Cheng, Chief Escort Cheng, you promised us that you wouldn't bring anything unlucky into the shop! We trust you because you're a regular customer, how could you bring a human head in like this!"
"This is a condemned prisoner who was just beheaded by the yamen. His family wanted to keep his body intact, so they asked me to bring him back." Cheng Yunhe immediately explained. He just wanted to earn more money, but who knew he would run into such a thing. Sigh.
"No, that won't do! Any evil spirits entering the shop will attract vengeful ghosts. Look here, these vengeful ghosts have already come!"
“This has been blessed with a ritual, so there should be no evil spirits,” Cheng Yunhe said. They had specifically hired a Taoist priest to perform the ritual for this matter, so theoretically nothing should have happened.
The guard scanned the area around the cargo boxes, suddenly noticing blood seeping from the floor of one of them. Remembering the bloodstains they'd found in the room earlier, and considering the Second Miss's disappearance, the guard's pupils dilated sharply.
She strode up to the cargo box, raised her sword, and knocked off the wax seal. She opened the box and was shocked to see the person inside. Her voice trembled as she exclaimed, "Second Miss!"
Everyone turned to look and saw the person in the cargo box. It was none other than Yu Qiushuang, the second young lady of Yucheng! Her face was deathly pale, her body was covered in blood, and there was a skeletal hand around her neck.
Hearing the guards call for the Second Miss, Yun Jiao, who was outside the door, immediately came over, squeezing in while shouting, "Excuse me! Excuse me!"
He quickly squeezed in, and as soon as he reached the cargo box, he saw this scene. "Qiu Shuang! Qiu Shuang!" He immediately trembled all over, and in a fit of anger and rage, he collapsed onto the cargo box and fainted.
"Could it really be a ghost?" Cheng Yunhe looked at the people inside, shocked. He himself was starting to doubt whether there really was a ghost. They had always watched what was put into each cargo box, and now it had turned out like this...
These bodyguards were naturally the first to panic, each muttering "impossible."
The guard, his eyes seemingly bloodshot, looked at everyone and ordered, "My second young lady died at Xiaomian Inn. No one can escape responsibility. Take them all back to Yucheng!"
See? Luckily I didn't ask for a room today. Otherwise, it wouldn't have made much difference whether they gave me one or not, since I was going to have a day trip to Yucheng Prison anyway. ┓( ′?` )┏
Li Lianhua: "..."
No wonder she said she couldn't stay here; now I understand why.
Jade City Prison
Fang Duobing clung to the wooden planks of the cell and shouted at the outside, "Hey, tell your city lord to come see me! Do you know who I am?! I'm a detective from Baichuan Academy! Why are you locking me up?! Hey! You're pretending not to hear me, aren't you?! Hey! I'm talking to you! Hey!"
Seeing that the person outside the door wouldn't even glance at him, and pretending not to hear what he said, Fang Duobing was extremely annoyed. What was this all about!
"Stop shouting. The mistress of Jade City isn't here. She'll see you when she returns." Li Lianhua found it really annoying, so much so that Li Lianxin covered her ears.
"Didn't we see City Lord Yu Mulan when we were locked up just now?" Fang Duobing knew he had disturbed someone, but what did Li Lianhua mean by that? Hadn't the City Lord and the others just met?
Why do you say the city lord is not here?
"You're a detective, aren't you? Being a detective means you have to observe and listen a lot. Think about it: the guards in the inn only mentioned the lady and not the city lord, and Yu Qiushuang only called her 'elder sister' and not 'sister-in-law'."
Therefore, it's clear that this Yu Mulan is a son-in-law who changed his surname; he's merely a nominal city lord. The real authority in Yu City is Yu Hongzhu.
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