Chapter 200 She Won't Admit It
"Visiting me? Who are you?" The old lady walked to the door but did not open it.
"We are government officials. We heard that you live here alone, so we came to visit you." Jiang Yunxi said. Zhan Beiyuan was a government official, so she did not lie.
On the way here.
She asked her second brother to buy some things for visiting the elderly.
This area is quite desolate, with only some empty and dilapidated yards left. It is very quiet. In addition, this place is remote, so it is a bit creepy to live here alone.
Crunch——
The wooden door opened with a sound.
An old lady in gray clothes appeared in everyone's sight. She had gray hair and a face full of wrinkles. She looked particularly short because of her hunched back.
Not far away, by the wall, stood a tall black dog, looking at them warily but making no sound.
"Are you from the government?" The old lady looked at Jiang Yunxi and the others with her cloudy eyes.
"I am the King of Cold of Tenglong Country." Zhan Beiyuan said his identity and looked towards the yard, which was shabby, dirty and messy.
The old lady was stunned for a moment, then quickly bowed and said, "I greet the King Han. Please come in, but the yard is shabby and dirty, I hope you don't mind."
Zhan Beiyuan walked inside and said, "No problem."
Jiang Yunxi followed him in. She frowned and said, "Old lady, do you live alone? Where are your family? It's too inconvenient for you to live here."
"My family members are all dead. I feel good living here. On the contrary, I am not used to living in the city." The old lady said lightly.
"Aren't you afraid of living alone?" Jiang Jingyan asked. For some reason, he felt that this place was quite creepy. There were many empty courtyards around, and the roads were dirty and messy.
The old lady looked at him and smiled, "I'm almost dead at my age, what's there to be afraid of? It's quiet."
Jiang Jingyan: “…”
"How do you usually live? It's a bit far from here to go to the city to buy things." Jiang Yunxi looked around and took a closer look. It was just the yard of an ordinary farmer's house, nothing special.
"There is a river behind me. I usually go there to fetch water. There is also land over there. I grow some vegetables myself. I just go to the city once in a while to buy what I need." The old lady said lightly.
"It's indeed quite convenient from this perspective." Jiang Yunxi smiled. If the environment were better, this would be a suitable place to live.
Suddenly, the old lady stopped and said, "The house is messy. Why don't you sit in the yard? I'll go boil some hot water for you."
Jiang Yunxi quickly spoke up, "Don't bother, we just want to ask you something."
The old lady looked at her and said, "If you ask, I will tell you if I know. If you don't know, there is nothing I can do."
"Actually, we came here today to look for a corpse. I wonder if you knew that." Jiang Yunxi asked directly without intending to hide it.
"Corpse? I've been living here alone for a long time. And there's the charity cemetery in front. I seldom go out and have never seen a corpse. If I had seen one, I would have reported it to the police long ago." The old lady said seriously.
"The corpse I'm talking about is not a recent one, but one from a year ago. Or, have you found anything strange about this manor?" Jiang Yunxi continued to ask.
Upon closer inspection, this area is indeed suitable for hiding corpses.
The other places are empty, desolate and weird, and most people would never come here.
The old lady was startled and stammered, "A body from a year ago. Girl, are you kidding me? A body would have rotted away in a year."
"I'm not kidding, we are indeed here to look for a body that has been stored for a year." Jiang Yunxi said firmly.
"I have been staying in this yard all the time and have never seen a corpse. As for the weirdness of this place, I rarely go out and I didn't know about it." The old lady thought for a while and shook her head.
"Sorry to bother you, we'll go look for it ourselves." Jiang Yunxi didn't intend to ask any more questions. She looked at Zhan Beiyuan and gestured to leave first.
Qingyang and Miaoyin put their things down.
The group left immediately.
"I think this place is quite big. How about we look for it separately?" said Taoist Qingxu.
"Okay, I'll go with Prince Han. Master, you take the senior brothers and sisters, and second brother, you go with the Sixth Prince." Jiang Yunxi began to make arrangements, and they also searched separately for the other guards.
Although Jiang Jingyan didn't want to team up with Zhan Luochen, he was also embarrassed to follow his sister and King Han. His father would then scold him for being more of a hindrance than a help.
Jiang Yunxi randomly chose a direction, looked here and there, but did not enter those abandoned courtyards.
"Why don't you go in and look for it?" Zhan Beiyuan asked.
"Because there are probably no corpses in these empty yards." Jiang Yunxi looked thoughtful.
"The body should be in the old lady's yard." Zhan Beiyuan said.
Jiang Yunxi looked at him with a smile, "Why do you think so?"
Zhan Beiyuan spoke of his speculation, "The body has been stored for a year, so someone must have been watching it. Pei Lie can't come here every day. Only the old lady is here, which means the body is either in her yard or in an empty yard near her house."
"That's right, it's too far and it's not convenient for her to go." Jiang Yunxi said.
"Since you guessed it long ago, why didn't you question her directly just now?" Zhan Beiyuan knew that he could guess it, and with her brain, she must have guessed it too.
Jiang Yunxi smiled faintly, "If we ask her directly, she won't admit it. Give her some time to calm down. We'll go over later."
Zhan Beiyuan glanced at her and said, "Yeah."
Whatever she says goes.
"But what I don't understand is why Pei Lie pretended that Pei Heng was still alive. Did Pei Lie kill the dozen or so women who died? Why did he peel off their faces?" Jiang Yunxi had many doubts in her mind.
"Once we find Pei Heng's body, we'll know the truth." Zhan Beiyuan said in a deep voice. If Pei Lie is the murderer, no matter who he is, he must pay with his life.
Jiang Yunxi nodded.
The two walked around Zhuangzi for a while before returning the same way.
"It seems that many people lived in this manor before. How come they all moved away? Although the charity cemetery is nearby, it's not very close." Jiang Yunxi frowned as he looked at the abandoned manor.
"I'm not too sure about this. I'll ask Qi Yan to check it out later." Zhan Beiyuan said. He used to stay in the military camp and seldom cared about what happened in the capital.
When they returned to the previous intersection, Jiang Jingyan and Zhan Luochen were already there.
"Uncle, we looked but found nothing." Zhan Luochen said quickly. They had indeed looked in many empty yards, and the dust on the ground was so thick that there were no footprints at all.
No footprints means no one has entered, and if no one has entered, the body is definitely not there.
A corpse that has been stored for a year must be taken care of regularly.
"Sister, we really looked. It seems that no one has entered those yards for years. The bodies are definitely not there." Jiang Jingyan said very confidently.
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