Chapter 309 Another Choice
"The bones are thin. Judging from the stature and bone structure... it should be a female."
Yan Haochu looked serious and quickly gave his judgment.
only……
He looked at the extra leg bone and rib next to him and clenched his fists.
There was more than one body in this pool.
"Keep searching!"
Yan Haochu gave the order sternly.
"Leave two of you on the shore to sort out the remains, and the rest of you go down and search! Not even an inch of the bottom of this pond can be left exposed!"
He took off his shoes and socks, rolled up his trouser legs, jumped into the pond first, and began to explore with all the servants.
Zhiluo exchanged glances with Yun Qingqing, raised her hands secretly, and a faint light that ordinary people could not see rolled out.
With just these people, it would take an unknown amount of time to fish out all the skeletons, but with Zhiluo's secret help, four complete skeletons were soon gathered on the shore.
Yan Haochu led his men ashore and frowned as he looked at the skeletons.
All four skeletons were women. The clothes on one of them had not been completely rotted away, and there was a jade bracelet of average quality on her wrist. Judging from the degree of decay of the clothes, they should have been there within the last year or so.
"Master Lu, how do you explain all this?" Yan Haochu asked coldly.
"I really don't know anything! You can see, my family has many servants, and many relatives and friends come and go every day. It is impossible for me to keep an eye on a pond all the time. How could I know that there was a corpse in it?"
Lu Yu looked aggrieved and argued confidently.
"But it is a fact that the corpse appeared in your house. No matter what, you as the head of the family cannot escape the responsibility of negligence. You'd better cooperate with the government in the investigation and confess everything you know!" Yan Haochu said, and prepared to let the police take the man back to the government.
"Wait a minute!" Lu Yu looked at Yun Qingqing in a hurry. "Master Qingyun, you promised to help my Lu family find the guardian angel first. Now that we haven't even started looking for it, you've called the police and had me taken away. Isn't that unreasonable?"
"Even if I want to cooperate with the investigation, I have to wait until you fulfill your promise first!"
He had long seen that the captain of the police clearly respected Qingyun Daqing very much, so he thought that as long as she was willing to say a word, the captain of the police would definitely give her this face.
Only after he gets through this hurdle will he have time to make arrangements and suppress these murders!
Yun Qingqing's face was cold and she said calmly:
"I did say that I would help the Lu family find their patron saint, but don't get me wrong, I never said I would help you find it!"
Lu Yu's face froze:
"You...you're kidding me!"
Yun Qingqing uttered a "huh":
"But now that we've come to this point, I can tell you what happened to the patronus and why it suddenly disappeared."
"Really! Quick, quick, tell me what's going on!" Mr. Lu had been frightened by the corpse before, but after hearing these words he finally came to his senses and asked hurriedly.
Yun Qingqing said calmly:
"The guardian gods you are talking about are originally the guardian gods of the northern region. To put it bluntly, they are just some mountain spirits and wild monsters with good cultivation and who do not reject humans."
"This guardian deity that your Lu family's ancestors contracted is considered gentle and kind among the spirits. It has protected the Lu family for more than ten generations and is willing to move with you to the Imperial Capital, which is thousands of miles away from your hometown. It has truly done its best for the Lu family."
"It's just that six years ago, this guardian deity encountered a calamity and nearly had its soul scattered. It managed to save its soul with great difficulty and has been recuperating ever since."
"However, not long after that, your Lu family's second son grew up, but he turned out to be a sinister, selfish, and lustful person, and he did a lot of immoral things in secret..."
When she got to this point, Lu Yu interrupted her angrily:
"That's just bullshit... Ugh!"
Yan Haochu raised his hand and had someone hold him down and cover his mouth.
"Master, please continue!"
Yun Qingqing nodded at him and continued:
"Generally speaking, the guardian deity only needs to eat the offerings from the house, but this one from your Lu family has some personality. The offerings that were contracted with your ancestors were merits. Therefore, the ancestral teachings of the Lu family from generation to generation are to do good deeds and not to do evil."
"It's just that the Lu family of recent generations have gradually forgotten their roots and treated the ancestral teachings as just a nice phrase. But they were able to live well thanks to the good deeds their ancestors had accumulated over the years, until such a disaster occurred."
Yun Qingqing pointed at a skeleton on the ground with a cold gaze:
"This girl was the first one killed by Lu Yu. She resisted violently during the assault and was killed by mistake. Then she was thrown into this pool and it was treated as if nothing had happened."
"After that, not only did he not reflect on his actions, but he became even bolder. He thought that as long as he did bad things without being discovered, he would still be the free and easy second young master of the Lu family. He had no remorse at all."
"The evil things he has done in secret these days are not just these few corpses."
Yun Qingqing looked directly at Mr. Lu:
"I guess your eldest son's illness came on so suddenly that he died in three days. You probably suspected that it was not normal, right?"
Mr. Lu was shocked:
"What do you mean by that... Could it be..."
"It's true that he had an acute illness, but he died suddenly instead of being cured. It was all because of your second son who secretly replaced the medicine!" Yun Qingqing said.
Old Master Lu looked at Lu Yu in shock, only to see that his mouth was blocked and he couldn't speak, but he kept shaking his head.
The old man was in turmoil and didn't know whether he should believe it or not, and he didn't know what to say for a moment.
But Yun Qingqing hadn't finished yet, she continued:
"The first time he harmed someone, the Guardian Immortal was recuperating from a weak spirit, and he was completely powerless to intervene. Not only that, because Lu Yu had ruined the Lu family's good deeds, the Guardian Immortal's recuperation never improved, but he was unable to break free due to the constraints of the contract."
"It was not until more than a year ago that the Lu family did something that finally made the guardian deity leave this dangerous place. After he left, the statue was broken into pieces."
Having said that, Yun Qingqing paused for a moment and looked at Mr. Lu.
"Since you woke up, have you not noticed who is missing from this yard?"
Mr. Lu looked around blankly, and suddenly realized:
"Yes... the eldest daughter-in-law? Where is she... and Ayuan, he is not here either. Where did the mother and son go?"
"After grandpa fell ill, my aunt and Ayuan were kicked out of the house by my second brother." The youngest sister of the Lu family, who had been silent all this time, suddenly spoke softly.
"This... why is this?" The old man frowned.
"My second brother said that A Yuan was a jinx who brought death to my eldest brother and that he could no longer stay in the Lu family to harm others. My aunt protected A Yuan and was driven away as well." The younger sister of the Lu family spoke in a low voice but clearly stated her ideas.
Mr. Lu's expression changed, and he turned to Yun Qingqing and asked:
"But... you just said that the guardian angel had a contract with my Lu family, so he couldn't leave, right? Why was he able to leave after driving away the eldest daughter-in-law?"
Yun Qingqing sneered:
"It should be said that it was fortunate that Lu Yu drove away the mother and son, which gave the guardian deity another choice."
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