Chapter 130: Disappointing
This was the worst day Gong Tingen had ever had since he became the commander of the Pursuit Division.
When he went out in the morning, he had a vague sense of foreboding - a pile of bird droppings fell from the sky and hit him right between his eyebrows.
By the afternoon, the ominous omen had come true.
Ji Changqing suddenly came to chase Si and accused him of being a demon.
"I never thought the Pursuit Division would collude with the Taoist priests of Qiyun Temple to use human brain marrow to make elixirs, and even attempted to exterminate all witnesses."
He almost spat out a mouthful of blood.
He has never heard of such inhumane and horrific news!
How did it become their Pursuit Division's doing? !
"Master Ji, be careful with your words!"
He spoke sternly.
"Our Pursuit Division has always followed orders. How could we have ever done something so unscrupulous? Lord Ji, please stop slandering our division with empty words!"
"Slander?"
Ji Changqing sneered.
"Master Gong, why don't you listen to the confessions of your own subordinates?"
After he finished speaking, he clapped his hands, and a tall and thin man dragged three men wearing the uniforms of the Pursuit Division into the room.
He glanced around.
Good job!
Bai Zixun, Zhang Wei, and Li Ming.
They were all Tiqi under his command.
My heart suddenly sank.
Could it be that these people really colluded with the Taoist priests and did something so unscrupulous?
Bai Zixun had a rope tied around his mouth and couldn't speak at all. It was Zhang Wei and Li Ming who started to speak.
"Sir, Bai Zixun came to us at noon and said there was a robber he wanted to catch. He took us to the outskirts of Beijing and blocked the road to catch the robber."
"We followed them and stopped the Ji family's carriage. We asked them to rest at Qiyun Temple for a while and then continue on our journey after we were done."
"About a quarter of an hour later, Bai Zixun said the robbers might have gone to Qiyun Temple and led us there."
"A whole group of Taoist priests died at Qiyun Temple. Miss Fu and her maid also died. Bai Zixun hugged Miss Fu and cried for a while. He then ordered us to arrest the old lady of the Ji family, the eldest lady of the Ji family, and their maids and guards, accusing them of slaughtering people at the temple."
"Then we were captured by the Ji family guards..."
When Gong Tingen heard this, the veins on his forehead throbbed.
He didn't even need to conduct an interrogation to know that Bai Zixun and his cousin from the Fu family wanted to collude with the Taoist priests of Qiyun Temple to kill Ji Changqing's family.
It's normal for the Fu family to hate Ji Changqing since their title was stripped.
Why is Bai Zixun going crazy!
Are you dissatisfied with the fact that your immediate superior is living too comfortably and want to make things difficult for him?
"The Taoist priests from Qiyun Temple were left alive," Ji Changqing tossed over a file. "Here are their confessions. Take your time to read through them."
He caught it hurriedly.
But then Ji Changqing said, "If you don't get to the bottom of this matter, I will propose to Your Majesty to abolish the Pursuit Department to avoid wasting public funds and food."
Gong Tingen: "..."
He took a deep breath.
"I failed to supervise my subordinates properly, causing them to abuse their power and nearly endangering Lord Ji's family. I deeply apologize. Lord Ji, please rest assured that I will conduct a thorough investigation and give you an explanation."
Ji Changqing nodded slightly and led Zhuying away.
Gong Tingen lost all his dignity and self-respect, and suppressed his anger while personally interrogating Bai Zixun.
This trial almost made him faint from anger.
This guy Bai Zixun actually knew nothing about the evil deeds of the Taoist priest in Qiyun Temple!
"...My cousin Yu said she had a merit she wanted to give me, and asked me to take people to stop the old lady of the Ji family's carriage and have it go to Qiyun Temple. Then we could go there to arrest someone. So I asked Zhang Wei and Li Ming to go with me."
"Who would have thought I'd see my cousin Yu lying dead in front of Li Lin? I was so angry that I just..."
Gong Tingen felt that it was necessary to add a clause when hunting down Silu people in the future: no romantic people will be hired!
Bai Zixun usually performed well, and he had recently planned to promote him, but who knew he would become so stupid.
He took his cousin Yu's words as an imperial decree and carried them out!
This Miss Fu is so bold that she dares to cooperate with anyone. She deserves to play with fire and get burned.
It was just a pity for him. He brought all the members of the Fu family to the investigating court for interrogation, but still couldn't find any clues about the contact between Fu Ruoyu and the Taoist priest of Qiyun Temple.
According to the Taoist priests of Qiyun Temple who spoke alive, they also did not know Fu Ruoyu.
They were following the orders of their master to kidnap boys from Qiyun Temple and take their brains to make longevity pills.
As for who their master is, they have no idea - the leader who is responsible for contacting the master and training them does not live in the temple on weekdays and his whereabouts remain a mystery.
Gong Tingen's old face felt burning with pain.
During the morning court session, he didn't even dare to look Ji Changqing in the eye.
They said they would conduct a thorough investigation, but in the end, they found nothing.
Even he himself began to waver: Is it really necessary for the Pursuit Department to exist?
From then on, whenever he saw Ji Changqing, he would avoid him like a mouse seeing a cat.
Ji Changqing was not surprised by this.
The leader of the Ruifeng Society was handed over to the Pursuit Bureau, but the Pursuit Bureau was unable to protect him and had him silenced, which shows how useless they were.
It’s better to rely on his people than on the Pursuit Department.
However, the mastermind behind the Taoist activity at Qiyun Temple was indeed cautious, and his people had no clue what to do for a while.
Feng Qingsui guessed that the queen or the prince should know.
Fu Ruoyu was obviously instructed by someone to set up this trap for her, but she didn't know that she was also a part of it.
——They just used her to stir up the murderous intentions of the Taoist priests in Qiyun Temple and never thought of letting her stay out of it.
The person who tricked Fu Ruoyu into digging out the boy's body and caused the Taoist priest of Qiyun Temple to kill him to silence him because his evil deeds were exposed should be the Queen's or the Prince's man.
The Queen and the Crown Prince plotted against her, but she didn't care.
The corpses of the children in Qiyun Temple made her extremely angry.
The officers and soldiers dug out a total of 32 boys' bodies in the plum forest.
These children, who were about the same age as Xiao Yu, had their brains taken out alive to make elixirs.
Why are there so many evil people in this world who trample on human lives as if they were grass?
Only then did she understand what her master had said.
The day she regained her sight and could see everything in the world, she said to her master with great emotion, "I want to be a skilled doctor like you, to heal the sick and give sight to the blind."
The master touched her head and said in a complicated tone, "It's good to have ambitions, but you are smart and kind, so being a doctor might be difficult for you."
"Why?"
"A doctor can spend his entire life saving only a few thousand or tens of thousands of people. A high-ranking official can do a little evil and cause countless lives to be destroyed.
As a doctor, it is very painful to see someone you have worked so hard to save die so easily at the hands of the evil deeds of those in power."
In this world, it is much easier to destroy a life than to save one.
She has understood.
At the same time, I understand that if I want to save lives, it is better to be a superior than a doctor.
But how to become the superior?
She didn't know how to do it.
She can only do her best to bring down those who have harmed her and harmed others one by one.
If there were fewer evil-doing superiors, there would be more light in the world.
Most of the corpses under the plum tree in Qiyun Temple and in Yuehu Lake in Rongchang Marquis Mansion were unclaimed and were buried by the authorities on the same hill in the suburbs.
She and Qi invited monks from Baiyun Temple to perform a ritual for them.
After returning from the ritual, the empress dowager issued an imperial decree, summoning her into the palace.
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