Qin Qingyao didn't say a word the whole afternoon. She still couldn't accept it. Why did a good girl who went out with her come back like this?
She regretted so much that she shouldn't have brought Baiji out with her. She should have sent someone to look for her earlier.
Dugu Yu saw Bai Zhi crying until she fainted several times and Qin Qingyao remaining silent, and he felt guilty towards Bai Ji.
If I had brought her back with me at that time, she wouldn't be in danger.
But Qin Qingyao was so seriously injured and in danger at that time, and he just wanted to bring her back to see a doctor as soon as possible. At that time, he really couldn't think about anything except Qin Qingyao's safety.
It was only a half-day journey, and there were so many people traveling the same way, so why was she the only one left alone and got into trouble?
While Dugu Yu sent people to investigate the murderer, he also asked the coroner to perform an autopsy. The conclusion was that Baiji died of excessive blood loss more than two days ago, less than three days.
In addition to having both eyes gouged out, she also had a dagger wound on her chest.
The wound showed signs of secondary stab wounds. Judging from the depth, the person who did it probably didn't have much strength. If it wasn't intentional, then it must have been done by a woman or child who didn't know martial arts.
Died from excessive blood loss...
These words were like a knife cutting into Qin Qingyao's heart. She couldn't imagine how painful and desperate Baiji must have been at that time. If they had found her earlier, would she still be saved? Would she not die?
The two sisters of the Bai family had a rough life. It was not until they stayed with Qin Qingyao as maids that they said goodbye to the life of hunger and displacement.
The two sisters depended on each other for survival, and now that their younger sister was gone, Bai Zhi was left all alone.
Qin Qingyao was unable to express the guilt and indebtedness in her heart, and she didn't even dare to talk to Bai Zhi.
Bai Zhi and Qin Qingyao have been losing weight at a visible rate in the past two days, which makes Dugu Yu feel extremely uncomfortable.
In order to find the murderer as soon as possible, Dugu Yu even invited Prince Duan to ask him about what happened that day.
Ling Jingxuan was also shocked when she heard that Baiji's maid had been murdered. "I'm sorry, I should have stopped her when she went out on her own that day."
But the girl was in a bad mood at the time, and he had no chance to keep her with him.
"When did she leave?"
"At noon, when I got back, she had just packed your things and was getting ready to go out."
"thing?"
"Yes, she was carrying two large bags by herself. She must have taken away all the things you left behind."
Dugu Yu called Wu Gang and Wu Yu to confirm again and again that nothing was found in the small dilapidated temple where Bai Zhi's body was found.
Ling Jingxuan frowned, "Could it be that we encountered bandits?"
"The coroner said her body wasn't violated. Furthermore, if it was bandits, why would they gouge out her eyes? And why did they only take her bag and not her money and belongings?"
At the end of last year, at a party hosted by Qin Qingyao, the Bai sisters won third prize. After receiving the prize money, they bought themselves new jewelry and a pair of identical gold hairpins.
If the crime was committed by bandits, even if they encountered thieves who had principles and did not violate her body, there was no reason for them to let go of the gold and silver jewelry on her head and just take the bag and leave!
Bai Zhi suddenly spoke, her voice so hoarse that she could barely speak, "Your Highness, the bracelet on my sister's hand is gone."
"What bracelet?"
"My family once had a silver lock. Before my mother passed away, she asked someone to destroy the lock and make two identical silver bracelets, saying they would be our dowries in the future."
"Over the years, no matter how hard our sister and I were, we never thought of selling the bracelet. We always carried it with us, but my sister no longer has it on her hand."
But the gold hairpins and other jewelry on her head were definitely still there. Which bandit would rob half of them, take the silver bracelet on her wrist, and then leave the shiny gold hairpin on her head?
When the coroner was cleaning Baiji's body, he found that her mouth could not close. At first, he thought it was because she had been dead for too long and her body was stiff.
But when he cleaned the coagulated black blood from her mouth, he found a wound in her throat.
It turned out that the blood in her mouth was not all from her eyes; she had swallowed something before she died.
After obtaining the consent of Baizhi and the two masters, the coroner took out a piece of black jade as big as an adult man's thumb from Baiji's esophagus near the stomach.
It doesn't look big, but thinking about swallowing it whole is simply a fantasy. No one knows how Baiji does it.
When Dugu Yu and Zhao Jinghan saw that thing, they were both stunned because they were the only ones who recognized what it was.
Qin Qingyao took it and took a look, only to find that there were exquisitely carved patterns and complex text on it.
"What is this?"
Dugu Yu took the black jade and felt indescribably complicated in his heart, because he felt that it might not just be his neglect that left Baiji alone, but he really was the one who killed Baiji.
"It's a secret order from the Yanling Army. There are different words and patterns on the four sides, representing four different instructions. The seal at the bottom is equivalent to my personal seal."
In other words, anyone who gets this secret order and knows how to use it can mobilize his Yanling Army to do anything without Dugu Yu knowing anything, including - rebellion!
"Why is the Yanling Army's secret order in Baiji's stomach?"
Dugu Yu clutched the secret order in his palm. "I've always carried this with me. I was in such a hurry to leave that I completely forgot about it..."
Qin Qingyao still couldn't figure it out. "How could Baiji recognize something that even I don't recognize, and why would he swallow it?"
Dugu Yu said, "Maybe the person chasing her recognized her."
Baiji was not violated by anyone, so she was not raped by criminals. Although her bag was gone, her gold and silver jewelry were almost all there, so it was impossible that she was robbed by bandits.
Wu Gang and Wu Yu did not find Baiji on the way home. The small temple was already several miles away from their original route.
Either she was being chased and ran over in a panic, or she was captured and taken over.
However, according to the coroner's examination results, apart from her eyes being gouged out, she did not suffer any other torture before her death.
So she was not tortured. It can only be said that the people who were chasing her acted decisively and had a clear purpose.
Dugu Yu looked at Baizhi's face, which was 70% similar to Baiji's, and for the first time in his life he felt sorry for someone's life or death.
"Is it possible that Baiji met someone on the way back, saw something he shouldn't have seen, and then was discovered, so he ran away in a panic."
"If she had swallowed the talisman in front of those people, she would have been dissected to remove the talisman. So it's very likely that she swallowed it while escaping."
Qin Qingyao said, "It's not surprising that she found this talisman while packing her things, but she doesn't recognize it at all. How can she know that it won't fall into the hands of others?"
Dugu Yu said, "It's very likely that those people went for this talisman, and Baiji happened to see and hear them, so they stabbed her eyes and took away all her luggage."
Dugu Yu's assumption was based on the assumption that someone would know that he had taken the token out and had left it behind when he was in a hurry to return home, so they went back to look for it.
"But how would anyone know where I left this thing?"
It's been so many days since he came back, but even he didn't remember it.
After hearing these words, Qin Qingyao felt cold all over, because someone really would know.
Someone really knew everything. Not only did he know when Dugu Yu would be so careless as to let the secret order leave his body, but he also knew that Baiji would take the secret order home alone.
Knowing where she will pass by and where to intercept her will ensure that she will not be discovered.
But somehow something went wrong. Baiji discovered the ambushers first and knew their purpose, so he swallowed the secret order and fled, but he was still caught up...
No one knows what Baiji saw before her death, and no one knows who killed her or why.
But if the reason was really the talisman she swallowed, then everything seemed to be explained just as Dugu Yu said.
And the one who knows all this best is only one person, Lin Xiafeng...
Qin Qingyao really found it hard to believe that a person could change so quickly and become so completely evil.
She was shivering all over, but she didn't say a word to anyone.
Lin Xiafeng is no longer the same person she used to be. She came here for revenge. Dugu Yu is a dead man in her eyes, and she and Ling Jingxuan are the targets of Lin Xiafeng's revenge.
It was her negligence. She thought that Lin Xiafeng was still the hard-working concubine's daughter. She thought that as long as she lived her life honestly, did not provoke her or ignore her, they would not have much intersection.
How could the heroine have time to waste time with a small supporting role?
But now she is no longer a supporting role, she is the target of the heroine's revenge, and everyone around her will become cannon fodder for Lin Xiafeng to vent his anger or a tool for revenge.
Qin Qingyao tried to think calmly, thinking about what she had seen of a crazy and cool reincarnated heroine who had successfully taken revenge, but she couldn't remember. Her mind was in a mess and she couldn't remember anything.
This isn't a fucking novel, this is her life. There are no protagonists, extras, or NPCs. Everyone is flesh and blood, and everyone has only one life.
She used to be able to live her own life peacefully, calmly pull Dugu Yu out of the established plot, and coldly watch those destined plots being shattered by her and those people's destined life trajectories being changed by her.
She thought she was doing the right thing and was very successful, but now she realizes how wrong she was.
She should not have been soft-hearted from the very beginning. She should have risked everything to send Lin Xiafeng to hell even if it meant both of them perishing!
Only when she dies, Dugu Yu will be truly safe! If she dies, the world will be at peace!
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