Seeing Gu Xin watching her stitching with an unchanging expression, Zheng Qiu breathed a sigh of relief.
"Third Young Master, please wait for me for half an hour." Zheng Qiu's work was almost finished in half an hour.
"It's alright, you go ahead and do your work. We'll eat together when you're done. I've asked He Gang and He Qiang to go buy some food for me." Gu Xin waved her hand and then wandered around the mortuary by herself.
Seeing that she was indeed not afraid, Zheng Qiu continued with her work.
Looking at the twenty-odd corpses lying in the mortuary, Gu Xin quickly identified which ones belonged to the Wang family, since she already knew the characteristics of the entire Wang family's deaths.
When Zheng Qiu said it was half an hour, she meant it. After half an hour, Zheng Qiu took off her outer smock, gloves, and hood, then washed her hands and scented them with her own specially made incense.
"Third Young Master, the smell in this room is unpleasant. Let's go outside!" Zheng Qiu said as he walked over to Gu Xin, who was standing in front of the body of Old Madam Wang.
"Xiao Qiu, is that Old Mrs. Wang's hair?" Gu Xin asked, pointing to the small, unclosed bag next to Old Mrs. Wang's body.
"Mm." Zheng Qiu nodded.
Gu Xin reached out to take it, but Zheng Qiu stopped her.
“I found some curly hair at the Wang family’s house. I’d like to see if it belongs to Old Mrs. Wang,” Gu Xin said.
"I'll get you a glove." Zheng Qiu turned around and took a glove from his toolbox that Gu Xin couldn't recognize the material of.
Gu Xin took out the curly hair she had found at the Wang family's house, which she had wrapped up, and then grabbed some of Old Mrs. Wang's hair.
As she expected, the hair they found at the Wang family's house was not Old Mrs. Wang's hair.
Grandma Wang's hair was already half white and particularly fine and soft, unlike the pure black hair that Gu Xin had, which was of good quality.
Zheng Qiu noticed this too and asked, "Was the Third Young Master found in the Old Madam and Old Master's room?"
Gu Xin let go of Old Mrs. Wang's hair, shook her head, took off her gloves, and wrapped up the curly hair she had found: "It's not just in their room. In the entire Wang family, except for the room of the eldest grandson's family of three, there are some in every corner of every other room. They're just not in fixed places; some are under the bed, some are in the closet, and some are in the corner. They're all in some hidden places."
Zheng Qiu pursed her lips, looking at Gu Xin with a hesitant expression.
Gu Xin smiled and said, "Xiao Qiu, did Lord Qin not ask you to tell me the autopsy results voluntarily? Did he say that he would tell me if I asked, and not if I didn't ask?"
Zheng Qiu nodded with difficulty.
She had known Lord Qin for a year or two, and they had worked together on more than a dozen cases, so she knew him quite well.
Lord Qin didn't have any allies before. A few years ago, the Third Prince suddenly extended an olive branch, but Lord Qin didn't accept it. As a result, the Seventh Prince thought that Lord Qin was one of the Third Prince's men. Anyway, Lord Qin was sent to Yizhou by the power struggle between the two royal brothers.
The Emperor had just summoned Lord Qin back at the end of last year. He originally planned to go to the Ministry of Justice, but a major human trafficking case suddenly occurred during the Lantern Festival, involving officials in Jiangnan. The Vice Minister of the Court of Judicial Review was transferred to Jiangnan to investigate the matter secretly, and Lord Qin also took over the position of Vice Minister of the Court of Judicial Review.
In Lord Qin's heart, he had no good feelings towards princes and princesses, even though the Princess Xin Xin in front of him was not from the royal family.
Therefore, Lord Qin's instructions to his subordinates were to fulfill her request, but not to cause any trouble.
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