The house was not big. Gu Xingnuo looked around the house. There were more than 20 people, men, women, old and young. Their deaths were the same as those of the two servants in the front yard. Their bodies were mutilated. They were not injured by sharp weapons, but seemed to have been torn apart by someone.
"Master," Gu Lin ran out of a room and stood in the corridor waving at Gu Xingnuo.
Gu Xingnuo walked to the corridor, glanced at Gu Lin, and went straight into the house without asking any questions.
Gu Lin took a deep breath, turned around and entered the room again.
Gu Xingnuo stood in a pool of blood in the middle of the room. It was not that Young Master Gu was unwilling to step on blood, but there was no clean place in this bedroom. The whole room was like a pool of blood, with broken limbs and flesh soaked in the blood. Even for people like Young Master Gu and Gu Lin who were used to fighting on the battlefield and had seen many mountains of corpses and seas of blood, if it were an ordinary person, he would at least vomit violently, if not fainted from the shock.
Gu Lin whispered to Gu Xingnuo, "Master, these people should have been hiding in this room, and were discovered by the murderer and killed together in this room."
Most of the furniture in the room was covered in blood, the bed was opened, and the clothes in the closet were scattered all over the floor. It was obvious that the deceased in this room had hidden and run before death.
Gu Xingnuo walked forward a few steps, bent down and picked up a human head soaked in blood. This was the head of a premature baby boy, with two black holes in his eyes and no eyeballs. Young Master Gu looked carefully at the broken neck of the baby, which was covered with minced meat and half of the trachea was hanging there, shaking as Young Master Gu moved his hands.
Gu Lin turned his head away, unable to bear to look any longer.
Gu Xingnuo bent the five fingers of his left hand and gestured at the baby's eye sockets. He understood clearly that the murderer had dug his fingers into the baby's eye sockets and tore the baby's head and neck apart.
"There is a child in the room," Gu Lin said to Master Gu at this time.
Gu Xingnuo saw it without Gu Lin telling him. In addition to the one in his hand, there were also the heads of two young children, a boy and a girl, in the pool of blood. They were no more than five or six years old. The girl's head was flattened like a broken ball, as if her skull had been smashed by a punch.
Gu Lin murmured to himself: "How big a grudge must this be?"
Gu Xingnuo propped up the tilted coffee table and gently placed the baby's head on it.
"Master," at this time, a guard's voice came from outside the door: "Lord Wang, the Minister of the Dali Temple, has brought people here."
Gu Xingnuo responded: "Please ask him to come in."
The former Chief Justice of the Dali Temple, Lord Lin, lost his official position due to the downfall of Prime Minister Zhao and was exiled to the bitter cold land of the northwest. The newly appointed Lord Wang was an old criminal officer. When he heard that a tragic case of family annihilation had occurred in the capital and that Gu Xingnuo was also at the scene, he did not dare to delay for even a moment and hurried over with his runners.
When he arrived at the door, he saw guards guarding it. Lord Wang knew without guessing that this was someone close to Young Master Gu. Now that the Gu family was favored by the emperor, and behind them stood the eldest princess who had killed the Zhao family father and daughter. Lord Wang, the official in charge, did not dare to enter the door and asked the guards to report to Young Master Gu on his behalf.
The guard went and came back, saying to Doctor Wang, "My master wants to see you."
Doctor Wang then led everyone from the Dali Temple into the mansion.
When everyone entered the door, they saw the body parts scattered all over the ground in the front yard. The people in Dali Temple, who had seen many dead bodies, were stunned. Some of them were inexperienced and bent over, covering their mouths and vomiting.
As Gu Xingnuo was about to leave the room, he stepped on something. He looked down and found it was a child's arm. For some unknown reason, Young Master Gu bent down and picked up the arm.
Gu Lin didn't want to stay in this haunted house any longer, so he said to Gu Xingnuo, "Master, I'll go out and wait."
Gu Xingnuo nodded.
Gu Lin ran out, looked at the night sky to calm himself, and cursed to the guards beside him: "This thug is worse than pigs and dogs!"
Several guards nodded, and one of them asked, "Was this done by one person, or a group of people?"
Gu Lin and several other guards were stumped by the question. Just by looking at the body, they couldn't tell whether it was done by one person or several people.
Gu Xingnuo stood in the room at this time, looked at the little hand clenched into a fist in front of him, and then reached out to pry it open. The child was not tall when he died, and his limbs were not yet stiff. Gu Xingnuo did not spend much effort to pry the little hand open, and then a jade pendant fell from the little hand.
Gu Xingnuo was about to catch the jade pendant, but when he saw the appearance of the jade pendant clearly, he felt as if struck by lightning. His whole body stiffened and he stood there in a daze.
It is said to be a jade pendant, but more accurately it should be a jade spherical sachet. The whole piece of jade is hollowed out into a spherical shape, and the upper and lower hemispheres are connected by a ring buckle, and the middle can hold spices. Young Master Gu took off the sachet from his waist. The two jade sachets were exactly the same, but one was a warm jade color, and the other was stained with blood.
Gu Xingnuo opened the jade sachet dripping with blood with trembling fingers. There was no spice inside. He turned it over and saw the word "Gu" on the bottom, stained red with blood.
The brothers all have one such jade scent bag, because it was passed down from their father, so the brothers always carry it with them as a reminder of their father. Gu Xingyan and Gu Xinglang do not put incense in the bag. Gu Xingyan's jade scent bag contains life-saving medicine, while Gu Xinglang's has never contained anything.
The small jade scent bag seemed to weigh a thousand pounds, making Gu Xingnuo almost unable to hold it. How could Gu Xinglang's jade scent bag be held tightly in the hand of a severed limb? Was it Gu Xinglang who killed the person? !
"Lord Wang," the voices of Gu Lin and others greeting Lord Wang, the Chief Justice of the Dali Temple, came from outside the door.
Gu Xingnuo turned around and looked at the half-open door. Almost unconsciously, Young Master Gu put the two jade sachets into his sleeves.
Lord Wang arrived at the door, took a look at the situation inside, wanted to cover his mouth and nose, but held back, stepped into the house, and bowed to Gu Xingnuo.
Gu Xingnuo opened his mouth several times before he found his voice and whispered, "Master Wang, you are too polite."
Doctor Wang said respectfully, "I didn't expect that this matter would also disturb the Duke."
Gu Xingnuo said: "I have a separate courtyard in my house, right on this street."
Lord Wang kept saying yes and walked up to Gu Xingnuo. Only then did he notice that Young Master Gu looked bad. Lord Wang did not suspect anything. He wanted to vomit when he saw the body parts and blood. He thought that Young Master Gu must feel the same way.
"I hope you can arrest the murderer as soon as possible," Gu Xingnuo pointed his finger at his surroundings and said, "This is how this family died, alas!"
Lord Wang hurriedly said, "I will do my best." Everyone in the court already knew that Gu Xingnuo was going to be the prime minister soon. Lord Wang had nothing but respect for Gu Xingnuo, who was about to be appointed as the prime minister.
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